Turn Spindle off while paused

Hi,
My mill has no VFD, only a 18 speed gearbox which I can only change while not in motion.
To have a manual spindle override I would like to change gear while paused, but I do not know how
to turn off the spindle while paused.

Thanks,

Rene

ok, I get what you are suggesting, but sometimes I need to change the speed in the middle of a program while it is running.
when I hit the pause button, the servos stop, but the spindle keeps running.
sort of like the spindle override slider.
hit pause, change gear, continue. anywhere, anytime.
Is there some easier way than adding some hal component after spindle-on that checks if the program is paused?

Well I cringe a little about suggesting this...
If you are using AXIS....

look in the INI file under [DISPLAY]

look for (and change) or add the line:

MIN_SPINDLE_OVERRIDE = 0

Now you can turn the spindle down to nothing.

Just remember that you can do that at anytime not just while paused!

Chris M

Hi

Is there some easier way than adding some hal component after spindle-on that checks if the program is paused?

I would have thought that hal was the easier way.

See www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/halui.html, specifically halui.program.is-paused and halui.program.is-running

One of these could be connected via an or component or an and component, depending upon the logic, along with your spindle feed signal, and would cut the spindle, when program was paused or when it was not running, again logic dependant.

regards