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I've hit the frustration wall - I can't find any CNCDrive documentation on what the Mach3 settings should be for the spindle. I have X Y and Z working fine.

I'm switching over from a chinese controller to the CNCDrive AXBB-E in order to use probe g-codes which the chinese controller doesn't support. So I have the spindle inverter (huanyang) programmed already and working - for 10V analogue input drive from the chinese controller - but I don't know how to get Mach3 to generate an Analogue voltage on the AXBB 10v analogue out pin (I've removed the jumper) - I've tried all sorts of settings on the spindle settings page and motor outputs page and I'm lost.

It looks like maybe Mach3 want's a port number for the analogue output pin? but the AXBB-E PDF manual gives port and pin numbers for all the pins - except the analogue ones ... so I guess that's a starting point for where I'm confused.

Is there any documentation on Mach3 spindle setup?

Please do not duplicate questions with asking in email and posting on our forum the same time. Do one of them only please.
My email answer for you was:

You can configure the spindle PWM and then on the AXBB-E Mach3 plugin page, in mach3 in the plugins menu you can attach the analog output to the spindle PWM, then the analog output will be proportional to the spindle PWM.

If you don't want repeat posts or questions, I would suggest you tune your forum settings.

I submitted this post and I must have blinked, because I missed the response page with the message that it needs approval by a moderator - and it looked like my post simply vanished. It was only after I made a second follow-up test post that I saw the "must be approved by moderator" page - it was only up for about a second and it was gone.

Perhaps you should set the redirect delay on the "moderator approval" message to something a bit slower - or even better - don't redirect, have the user acknowledge with a button press.

Anyway - thanks for your reply - I emailed you back with more questions, which per your request I won't repeat here yet.

Only the very first post requires moderator approval, we can avoid spamming bots this way.
I did not know what you posted this earlier and that this was your first post and that you had to wait for the answer is why you emailed us also.

I just said what I said because many users doing this, because they think they will get a faster answer, but in reality it will produce slower responses from us, because it will give us extra work, so if everybody would do this then we will have about 2 times as much work with support as what is nessessary which would cause slower responses.

And I have answered your additional questions in email.