Spindle Control

John Dammeyer All Messages By This Member #154933 开云体育 Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
Bruce All Messages By This Member #154934 开云体育 VFD 3 phase motor manually speed set and on/off. ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
[email protected] All Messages By This Member #154935 I have a VFD controlled spindle on my router and this is controlled via my gcode. Cheers Calum toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 14 June 2021 at 07:49 John Dammeyer <johnd@...> wrote: Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ? ? ?
Andy Wander All Messages By This Member #154936 开云体育 VFD w/ 3-phase motor on both lathe and mill, controlled by Mach4 thru Modbus. ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
John Dammeyer All Messages By This Member #154937 开云体育 Andy, Is ModBus fast enough for reversing and tracking for power tapping? John ? ? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Wander Sent: June-13-21 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? VFD w/ 3-phase motor on both lathe and mill, controlled by Mach4 thru Modbus. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
Andy Wander All Messages By This Member #154938 开云体育 I’ve never tried. ? But, I think that you might need an in-band spindle for power tapping. ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Andy, Is ModBus fast enough for reversing and tracking for power tapping? John ? ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Wander Sent: June-13-21 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? VFD w/ 3-phase motor on both lathe and mill, controlled by Mach4 thru Modbus. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
John Dammeyer All Messages By This Member #154939 开云体育 I believe you definitely need an encoder on the spindle itself or toothed belt and use encoder on motor if it has one.? Power tapping has to be closed loop. ? John ? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Wander Sent: June-13-21 2:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? I’ve never tried. ? But, I think that you might need an in-band spindle for power tapping. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Andy, Is ModBus fast enough for reversing and tracking for power tapping? John ? ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Wander Sent: June-13-21 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? VFD w/ 3-phase motor on both lathe and mill, controlled by Mach4 thru Modbus. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Dammeyer Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
Thayer Syme All Messages By This Member #154940 开云体育 John, I'm using G-code through Mach 3 to drive an on-off relay for my Sherline spindle, and set the speed manually. Thayer On 6/13/21 3:49 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ?
Stephen Muscato All Messages By This Member #154941 John, Running Mach3 on both, I have a VFD on the Router and the Lathe. I set the on/off and speed manually on the lathe, the Router on/off is with code. Both are Huanyang VFD's, I used to be able to control speed of the Router via RS485, but that stopped working awhile ago. So I just do it manually. Never could get the Lathe RS485 going. Steve On Sunday, June 13, 2021, 2:50:05 PM CDT, John Dammeyer <johnd@...> wrote: Quick little survey on what everyone has on their machine for spindle control. ? 1. Do you have a VFD on a 3 phase motor for Lathe or Mill. ? 2. Does the CNC controller drive the spindle or do you set the speed and ON/OFF manually? ? Just curious John ? ? "ELS! Nothing else works as well for your Lathe" Automation Artisans Inc. www dot autoartisans dot com ?
Martin Connelly All Messages By This Member #154942 Edited Manual control of speed, direction and on/off on both lathe and mill. I do most of my work using wizards and MDI. Only go to CAM for complex shapes. I also write Gcode programs for some things such as using the A axis where I can't be bothered to find a CAM program that does what I want. My machining is a hobby not work and tool changing is also manual so?I am under no time pressure or have any need to leave machines running unaided so the need for controlling the spindle with Gcode has never been something I felt I needed. Martin
Joe Macmurchie All Messages By This Member #154943 开云体育 Martin has described my situation to a “T”…? ? ? Sent from my Atari 2600 Regards, -Joemac ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Martin Connelly Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 2:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? [Edited Message Follows] Manual control of speed, direction and on/off on both lathe and mill. I do most of my work using wizards and MDI. Only go to CAM for complex shapes. I also write Gcode programs for some things such as using the A axis where I can't be bothered to find a CAM program that does what I want. My machining is a hobby not work and tool changing is also manual so?I am under no time pressure or have any need to leave machines running unaided so the need for controlling the spindle with Gcode has never been something I felt I needed. Martin
John Dammeyer All Messages By This Member #154944 开云体育 The wizards are the best feature of MACH! ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Connelly Sent: June-14-21 2:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Spindle Control ? Manual control of speed, direction and on/off on both lathe and mill. I do most of my work using wizards and MDI. Only go to CAM for complex shapes. Martin

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