Askpower VFD Connections

I have been looking everywhere for this information with no luck.

The vfd says that it is a Huanyang vfd but it is in fact an Isacon which has the same configuration as the askpower vfd's out there.

The manual is not much help so I'm hoping someone else is using one of these and can hopefully point me in the correct direction.

I am trying to run a water cooled spindle 400hz 2.2KW with the 2.2kw 3hp VFD. I have an ST-V2 breakout board and I also have a RS-485 to usb adapter. I have tried without success to connect the vfd to the breakout board using the 0-10v connections and the spindle relay. Not sure on how to write the custom.hal file for that scenario.

I have also tried to connect via the RS-485 usb connection and I am not sure which terminals on the vfd should be connected.
There seems to be good information on what to do with the custom.hal file for that scenario.

The terminal page is attached.

The VFD and Spindle work as they should in manual mode. But I want to be able to control the spindle through Linuxcnc.

I'm sure my inexperience is most of the problem . Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the speedy reply. Yes the ST-V2 Bob has 0-10v power supply which i believe controls the speed of the spindle. I will check the output voltage this afternoon to make sure it is correct.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm under the impression that I have to use a relay for Off/On also?
I am not sure what to put in the custom.hal file with this set up.

Bill

OK, I do have voltage coming out of the 0-10v output on the ST-V2 board. It measures .09v with nothing running.

I think my problem is with the custom.hal configuration. That is the last line Linuxcnc reads before shutting down: ./custom.hal found then shutting down. Not sure what to do. Please let me know what additional info I can post to help solve the problem

Thank you

Apologies for my misleading post. Linuxcnc will not start.

wwp@cnc ~ $ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.7.10
pickconfig: installed aux examples: /usr/share/linuxcnc/aux_examples/NativeCAM
Machine configuration directory is '/home/wwp/linuxcnc/configs/my-mill'
Machine configuration file is 'my-mill.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
Found file(REL): ./my-mill.hal
Note: Using POSIX realtime
config string '0 out'
Found file(REL): ./custom.hal
./custom.hal:9: setp requires 2 arguments, 1 given
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hal_manualtoolchange", line 66, in <module>
nf.start(app); nf.makecommand(app, "_", _)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nf.py", line 119, in start
source_lib_tcl(r, "support.tcl")
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nf.py", line 111, in source_lib_tcl
r.tk.call("source", os.path.join(tcl_libdir, f))
KeyboardInterrupt
Note: Using POSIX realtime
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/wwp/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/wwp/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
wwp@cnc ~ $

The results of starting linuxcnc from terminal.

./custom.hal
# Include your customized HAL commands here
# This file will not be overwritten when you run stepconf again


# Load the Huanyang VFD user component
loadusr -Wn vfd hy_vfd -n vfd

#net vfd-comms halui.machine.is-on => spindle-vfd.enable
setp spindle-vfd.enable
net spindle-fwd motion.spindle-forward => spindle-vfd.spindle-forward
net spindle-reverse motion.spindle-reverse => spindle-vfd.spindle-reverse
net spindle-speed-cmd motion.spindle-speed-out-abs => spindle-vfd.speed-command
net spindle-on motion.spindle-on => spindle-vfd.spindle-on
net spindle-at-speed motion.spindle-at-speed => spindle-vfd.spindle-at-speed


Thanks again Andy.

Hello Andy,

I see the same but I do not know how to find the pin name or value. I don't know what to put on line 9 of the custom.hal file. Any ideas?

Bill