Pairing up Mesa 7i76e with VFD Delta C2000

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04 Jan 2019 21:57 #123513 by Todd Zuercher
ACM to pin 1
AVI to pin 2
10v to pin 3

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05 Jan 2019 08:35 #123535 by vmihalca
I tried wiring as you said and its still not working.
I will attach my hal file so that you guys can have a look over it.

PS: There are a few things commented out that apparenly should not be commented out like:
#net jog-x-pos halui.jog.0.plus
#net jog-x-neg halui.jog.0.minus
These are because I'm using an iMach ps4 pendant and when I installed that pendant, I had to use their hal file so they were conflicting with these.
However all the functions are working fine, I can start/stop the spindle from the pendant itself, the UI of linuxcnc updates its just that nothing happens.
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05 Jan 2019 14:15 #123542 by PCW
From your hal file:

#net spindle-enable <= motion.spindle-on
net spindle-enable => hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.spinena

spindle-enable will always be false

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06 Jan 2019 07:56 - 06 Jan 2019 08:07 #123586 by vmihalca
So you're saying that it doesn't work because spindle-enable is always false?
I am using an USB pendant form iMach P4s and for that I needed to add the hal file in the attachement.
When I added that I had various conflcts that some pins are already used so I had to comment them out in the SyilX7.hal
You can see in the file attached below that spindle-enable is set in this file.

Regarding direction, my VFD does not have a enable an direction pin, instead it has DCM that needs to be connected to either FWD or REV in order to spin.
So basically I would need some kind of a relay functionality to control the direction.
Can I achieve this functionality using the pins from TB4 connector?
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Last edit: 06 Jan 2019 08:07 by vmihalca. Reason: forgot something

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06 Jan 2019 16:15 #123611 by andypugh
Parameter 02-00 can be set to 1 to put the VFD in RUN-STOP / FWD-REV mode. (manual page 12.1-02-1 )

But that isn't the point being made. Without the spinena pin being set there is no output from the digital potentiometer.

Just uncomment that line in the HAL and you should see a voltage appear on the terminals when you turn the spindle on.

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08 Jan 2019 20:13 - 08 Jan 2019 20:14 #123791 by vmihalca
Indeed after uncomenting out the spindle-enable, the potentiometer functionality of the mesa board is working.
However now I have two challenges
1. How do I switch between FWD and REV?
Like described in a previous post, I have made the wiring this way:
FOR to Pin 6 (spindle enable+)
REV to Pin 8 (spindle dir+)
DCM to Pins 7 and 5
Right now it works only on forward, because when I hit spindle FWD, the spindle-enable will activate the potentiometer and will cause the pin 6 to be ON.
When I would need to run REV, I would need to connect DCM to REV, but spindle-enable would still need to be ON because I need the potentiometer to work.
Is there any way I can achieve the FWD/REV functionality without using these pins? I don't know, perhaps by using some of the outputs that mesa has?

2.I have some issues between the commanded speed and the actual speed of the drive.
I have set the min and max limits to 10 and 10000rpm and the outputscale to 10000
I am monitoring the pins that are reflecting the commanded speed. The results are not linear and I don't know why.
See below the results between the commanded speed and the actual VFD speed:
101 ... 7rpm
201 ... 115rpm
301 ... 222rpm
401 ... 329rpm
501 ... 436rpm
...
1001... 968rpm - here its still below the commanded rpm
2001... 2039rpm - starting from here its above the rpm
3001...3110rpm
4001...4190rpm
5001...5256rpm

Please advise!
Last edit: 08 Jan 2019 20:14 by vmihalca.

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08 Jan 2019 20:18 #123793 by andypugh
Have you configured the VFD for ON/OFF - FWD/REV mode?

With your current HAL spinena should be true for either fwd or reverse rotation (motion.spindle.is-on)

To reverse the spindle you need to make a HAL connection to spindir from motion.spindle-reverse.

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08 Jan 2019 21:54 - 08 Jan 2019 21:56 #123796 by vmihalca
I forgot about that, i will try it tomorrow.
Any suggestions about point number two from my post regarding commanded vs actual speed?
The values I have now are:
setp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.spinout-minlim 10
setp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.spinout-maxlim 10000
setp hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.spinout-scalemax 10000
Last edit: 08 Jan 2019 21:56 by vmihalca.

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08 Jan 2019 23:44 #123803 by andypugh
VFDs are often a bit non-linear in frequency response to analogue input.

Personally I don't worry about it, the speeds are "too slow", "about right" and "too fast" and the exact numbers don't really matter.

If you do feel the need for an exact spindle speed then you can either use a PID loop for closed-loop control or you can use the "lincurve" HAL component to tweak the requested voltage for a given spindle speed.

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09 Jan 2019 12:27 #123824 by vmihalca
After I changed the VFD settings, it worked! Now it spins in both directions. Thanks!

One problem remained is the one related to the speed.
Right now I'm investigating to see if I can obtain an encoder output from the resolver input. The VFD has a plugin board, that in spec should output encoder signals. See attached the spec of that board.
Using an ethernet cable with twisted pairs, I have connected it to the AA' BB' ZZ' and tried monitoring with a friend's oscilloscope.
I have measured the A channel, I see a square wave, quite noisy, but Vpp (voltage peek to peek) shows 15volts...and this seems a bit odd to me because the documentation of the board attached below says its only 5v.
Also how do I figure it out what's the resolution of this encoder?
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