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Yeah well after some testing around it turns out that SPI wasn't an issue, the issue that stopped the drive from working was the fact that the raspi 5 couldn't provide stable enough voltage to the VIO of the drive, ive since set up 5 volts from an external power supply and it seems to be working.

Im having a different issue now where the motor itself doesn't spin, it just oscillates a bit depending on scale settings and that's about it, i have checked the motor coil connections and it seems like all the physical connections are fine but some part of the configs just doesn't let it run correctly.

Can I make a small suggestion. It's actually a problem many OS projects have. There's no real introduction. When you open the documentation you would expect something that gives you an idea if it's worth full to continue reading. But you step right into the installation. But I will evaluate further because the name looks promising to what I am looking for. Thanks for your efforts already of course cheers

Hi Friends,

Circling back here, it was a blown driver, I've it replaced and now the motor acts as expected. Thanks for the support, i am no longer having this issue.

The _average_ PWM voltage (what a voltmeter reads) with be the output voltage (~5V)
times PWM_value/PWM_scale

The PWM amplitude is always 5V, its duty cycle changes with the PWM value

I would set the PWM value manually for testing as I have no idea what the velocities
are relative to the PWM scale