Can't get my spindle to turn on

So I already have this machine running with Mach4 and just for fun I installed linuxcnc to play with on a 2nd HDD. Anyway, the setup went very smoothly and I was up and homing and jogging all the axis in no time. The one place I'm stuck is getting the spindle to work. I'm using a Gecko G540 and know for a fact that the Gecko output I'm using is pin17 on the PP. It works in Mach4 so I know that is ok. In stepconf under outouts I set SPINDLE ON to pin 17 but clicking the spindle on off button in linuxcnc doesn't work. Even if the speed PWM was not working I should hear a "click" from my on/off relay and I do not so it looks like linuxcnc is just straight up not flipping the pin17 output high/low state when clicking spindle on.

Any ideas?

Is your speed higher than 0

IS Spindel enable connected correctly in HAL.
And what is saying Hal Show

anfänger wrote:

IS Spindel enable connected correctly in HAL.
And what is saying Hal Show

Sorry to be a total noob, but how do I do this?


As for the speed question, I tried other speeds, but I should at a minimum hear the click of my spindle on relay inside my control box even if the speed is set to 0 (verified with mach4), so I know that linuxcnc is not switching the output.

Nop s0 is stoping the enable to my best knowledge.
But copy the .hal and the .ini file so we can see and help better.

andypugh wrote:

devinw wrote:

[As for the speed question, I tried other speeds, but I should at a minimum hear the click of my spindle on relay inside my control box even if the speed is set to 0 (verified with mach4), so I know that linuxcnc is not switching the output.

No. For no other reason than "it's always been like that" LinuxCNC doesn't turn on the spindle unless the speed is set greater than zero.
This is _probably_ so that the spindle drive always sees at least the minimum speed.

OK, good to know! I did just try the M3 S1000 (and other speeds) as recommended and still no dice.

I have attached my config files. Thanks everyone for taking a look at this!

tommylight wrote:

In the hal file the scaling is to high, is there any reason for that ?
In the ini file, everything related to spindle is absent/missing !!!

The steppers are 200 counts/rev and the Gecko microsteps 1000x. It works out. Everything moves fine and the right ratio.

As for the spindle stuff missing, I went through the make new profile with stepconfig. I haven't even TOUCHED the actual .ini file (except to load it onto this forum). Any clue why all that would be missing?