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I will give another thumbs-down to any suggestion that Centroid should change to an annual subscription model.

Just because other companies have decided to treat their customers like sh*t, doesn't mean we should do so as well.

Buy it once, use it as long as you like. Spend a few $$ if/when you ...

I have all the connections made for the VFD, but am unsure of whether or not I am able to use "ACM" on our Automation Direct GS30 as both the ground reference for Input and output. (I can't seem to find a dedicated Analog Output Common, and assume that I am just supposed to know something ...

That sounds like a power polarity / encoder direction mismatch. Try swapping your plus and minus motor power leads.

As far as I know, the factory cables work just fine with ASDA-A2 drives.

Can you point out the particular pin connections that you think are wrong?

Note that the ASDA-A2 drives apparently have two sets of "pulse" and "sign" inputs. It appears that Syntec was using the "low speed optical coupler ...

Looks good!

; Control ToolSetterArmDown (OUT19) with Aux3Key_M (push and hold)
; At the start of every check ensure ToolSetterArmDown is deactivated and reset.
IF TRUE THEN RST ToolSetterArmDown
IF TRUE THEN RST ToolSetterArmDownActive_M
IF TRUE THEN RST Aux3LED

; Make sure up and down can't be active at the ...

I am curious why it is better to set OtherFault_M rather than set SV_Stop directly?

Review the section in MainStage under the "Handle Faults" comment.

If none of the fault categories are set -- PLCFault_M, SV_STALL_ERROR, SpindleFault_M, LubeFault_M, AxisFault_M, ProbeFault_M, OtherFault_M or ...

Your screen pictures above clearly show that the M3 macro and PLC program are doing everything they can and should do, to make the spindle start and run. OUT7 "SpindleEnableOut_O" is on (green), and W7 "SixteenBitSpeed_W" is 16383, which is essentially 25% of maximum speed.

Either there is ...

For troubleshooting, change Parameter 78 from 1 to 0, so that the spindle RPM shown in the status window is the commanded RPM from the PLC, rather than the measured RPM from the encoder.

When you do that, and run "M3 S1600", does the commanded RPM in the status window still say 0?

If it still says ...

Let us know how that custom M101 macro and Q parameter work out for you....