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Hi Marc, my control circuit for the drives is powered up at the same time as the Oak is powered up. The power circuit for the motors goes through a circuit controlled by the e-stop but I can test with the estop circuit closed as I have a no volt release in that circuit too. I have been turning the Z...

Okay, so i went into PID config and set some initial parameters as suggested in another post as a starting point as everything was set to 0. Now when i rotate the servo motor spindle i get error 411 come up after only a few degrees of rotation. Help desperately needed please.
Chas

Hi Marty, disconnected the Z axis servo from the ballscrew so i can rotate 360 degrees by hand and this is what i've found. On rotating the servo spindle clockwise (spindle toward you) the PID counts in a negative direction. Encoder counts are set to 32,768 in the motor config which tallies with the...

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Hi again, thank you for all the help so far, i think i'm making progress. Well, at least i'm at the next hurdle. DRO's are now working and limit/home switches have been connected and are reading correctly, ie green until broken . My problem now is when i try to jog absolutely nothing happens and if ...

Okay, i have got the output 1 issue resolved and have confirmation of encoder communication for spindle and X and Z axis following the PID menu instructions in section 6.2 of the manual. However no readout in any of the DRO's. Following on from that i have another issue. As i am using Mitsubishi MR-...

Great, thank you for the help. I will have a read up and hopefully have a clearer idea of what needs to be done.

Many thanks, i have gone back a step and removed all the encoder settings and the E-stop output now works. Now i need to go back through the encoder settings one at a time till i get it all to function. I did a bit of reading on the forum and came across a post you answered where RTech was having an...

Hi, i have finally got back to setting up my Denford cnc lathe after many months off the project for various reasons. I am at the point of doing the initial set up but i cannot get past the point in CNC12 where output one is supposed to turn green when input 11 is green . Cycling the e-stop turns in...

Many thanks for the schematics, much appreciated. Now I have a fighting chance of getting it all operational.