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13 Jul 2021 18:49 #214638 by hairyMug
A few weeks ago, I got tired of fighting with my current setup; (a TinyG board), and decided to upgrade...
After jumping down many rabbit-holes, reviewing countless pages on the forum and getting TONS of help from many kind souls, I have my setup working.
To maybe save someone else from this ordeal, I am posting my config files and setup.

The hardware:                     
  1. Mesa 7i96           store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...t_id=311&search=7i96
  2. 3 axis X, Y, Z   (2 y motors connect to same stepper)
  3. nema 23 motors
  4. 20 x 30 inch work area
  5. 4  Drivers                www.amazon.com/dp/B00MQGSLNE?psc=1&ref=p...dt_b_product_details
  6. 800w  air-cooled spindle       (sorry no details)
  7. 110 v  HY HUANYANG  VFD  (sorry no details)
  8. Mesa SPINX board ( to convert PWM to 0-10v for VFD)  store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc..._id=205&search=spinx
  9. Ethernet card  (just for Mesa board)
Notes:
  1.  The Mesa board has 3 steppers but I could not determine the HAL command to connect the two drivers, so I just wired them... Works good
  2.  If you don't already have one, I would buy a VFD  and spindle as a matched set ... 
  3. If you are new to LINUX (as I am) Good Luck!
  4. The spindle signal needed to be adjusted to get the speeds to get fairly close; see the "sum2", " mult2" HAL objects...
HAL:

File Attachment:

File Name: 7i96_2021-07-13.hal
File Size:11 KB
 

INI:

File Attachment:

File Name: 7i96_2021-07-13.ini
File Size:4 KB

            
                          
 
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19 Jul 2021 00:03 #215268 by tommylight

The spindle signal needed to be adjusted to get the speeds to get fairly close; see the "sum2", " mult2" HAL objects...


Thank you.
There is also the "lincurve" to deal with non linear speed controls:
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/lincurve.9.html

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