I continue to make progress on the Clausing NC. I have the Huangyang GT drive successfully communicating with the hy_gt_vfd comp. The only issue I see is that this component does not have a way to stop communications like the similar hy_vfd comp does. So If I start linuxcnc before the Huangyang drive is powered on then I get a stream of error messages in the window from which linuxcnc was invoked. So maybe I need to rethink how my e-stop logic is wired. I have a contactor to cut the Huangyang power when the e-stop is pressedI have an external physical e-stop button as well as the one in the axis GUI. The axis GUI starts up with the e-stop pushed in, so until the drive is initialized I get all of these errors. Maybe this is not a big deal but I don't really like it.
The Clausing has 3 speed gearbox and provisions for a spindle encoder, which I will be installing soon. The gearbox has switch contacts to indicate which gear it is in. I see there is a component called "spindle" which includes provisions for gearboxes. Should I use this component instead of the "motion spindle" component? If so will I lose some important functionality like spindle synchronized motion for multi start threading or G65 constant surface speed? Just asking before I waste time going down the wrong path. Thanks in advance. John Figie _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
