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