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I installed the brain that Scott wrote. When I touch the shift key the table stops like others on the board have mentioned. Has anybody got this to work yet?

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Running mach but trying to use CNC11 to tune. Demo copy won't run PID tuning. So I installed the full version. It says hit run program to tune, but when I hit it it says that the trial has expired. Is there an actual way to do this without buying CNC11??????

this code does not seem to work..

is Activate/DeactivateSignal(12) an acceptable way to turn modbus output 12 on and off??????????????????

I guess I will try it with the macro...

M5 macro
doSpinStop() 'stop spindle
activateSignal(OUTPUT?) 'apply brake on output number ? (you choose)
while isMoving()
sleep 10
wend
sleep 2000 'apply brake for 2 seconds
deactiveSignal(OUTPUT?) 'release brake

If it had a VFD it would! All relays and vari drive here.

Does anyone know how to write a brain that uses the mach3 m5 to trigger a timed pulse of the dynamic spindle brake?

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I am running Mach but Scott said I could tune my PID parameters in CNC11. When in the tune menu where it says"Press cycle start to run, PID.Collection_moves.txt" I hit alt+s and it puts me back into the PID parameter screen. It says, "Autotune file not found or invalid data. Run autot...

It was that stupid M92 macro. On the two operations where it was looking for the limits I changed the <, and > around. Works not. Heck, I just ran my first program. Closer each month. Should be fully functional in about 20 years.

I believe I am for the y axis only. The other two I reversed the motor wires. I wonder if there is a problem there? I wish Scott would check back in.

DRO's are correct in all operations. Just the M92 moves in the wrong direction. I did have to swap polarity on x and z axis to get them to move in the correct direction.