Spindle RPM Cap

SRT wrote: We can do that but in long or large roughing cycles it is a time waster, watching air cuts drives me nuts as a business owner. There are times when the insert may need changed in the middle of a roughing cycle.

+1 This is another one of those fairly standard things in the Real World™.

SRT wrote: Looks like we lose the constant surface speed but it reads the value of the S portion of the G96 line in the code.
EX G96 D1000 S600
Hit feedhold, spindle stop, spindle restart and cycle start spindle and program resume but at 600 RPM for the rest of the program

So, it switches from 600 ft/min to 600rpm when you feed-hold?

Can you confirm where the buttons are wired up to?
I can try it on my machine. As that is metric this is likely to have it going from 45 m/min to 45rpm, which I am not sure the VFD can even handle...

Hello Andy,

I have the buttons on the machine hooked to halui.spindle.start and halui.spindle.stop through ladder, with the program is paused output bit as a permission, so they can't stop unless the program is paused.

Correct, when we hit feedhold, then spindle stop, measure the part, check finish (whatever they needed to do) then hit spindle re-start, and then program restart/un-pause, the spindle starts back up at whatever the S value is in the G96 command, not at whatever calculated value it should be at for the corresponding diameter the tooltip is at, and it stays at that speed until the next tool call/spindle command.


Just thinking out loud, what do think it would do if we just hit program restart/un-pause and skipped the spindle re-start?

Thanks

Rick

LAIR82 wrote: Just thinking out loud, what do think it would do if we just hit program restart/un-pause and skipped the spindle re-start?

I don't know, it might be interesting to test when cutting air.

An alternative, if you are in feed-per-rev mode is to turn the spindle override down to zero. That should stop all motion too.
Though I don't really like the idea of doing things on the machine in that situation, with it all poised to move again.

Something I have never tried is turning the chuck backwards in that scenario. I wonder if the tool backs-off? I suspect not.

andypugh wrote: I can try it on my machine. As that is metric this is likely to have it going from 45 m/min to 45rpm, which I am not sure the VFD can even handle...

Andy, it doesn't need to be those values. It can be anything as long as the two values differ so that you can note the error.

andypugh wrote: An alternative, if you are in feed-per-rev mode is to turn the spindle override down to zero. That should stop all motion too.
Though I don't really like the idea of doing things on the machine in that situation, with it all poised to move again.

Something I have never tried is turning the chuck backwards in that scenario. I wonder if the tool backs-off? I suspect not.

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In the Real World™, when one turns the spindle down to Zero, it is HELD at Zero RPM. As in, one CANNOT rotate it by hand.