On 26 September 2014 19:52, Condit Alan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you use a relay to reverse the spindle motor? With the appropriate hal
> connections (and possibly support circuitry) one could use the dir line to
> control a DPDT relay.

I actually have a little board with a couple of ULN2003 chips on it,
controlled by the 7i43, and use those to set "on" and "dir" for the
VFD. There is also a channel that swaps between the mill motor and
lathe motor, as the same VFD drives both on the dual-purpose machine.
(The board is actually plug-configurable to allow any GPIO pin to use
the input and output buffers. I have no idea why I bothered, I have
never changed the configuration.

I am not sure if your 7i42 has the "oomph" to drive a relay. The 7i37
might have been a better choice.

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