by Beardie7 » Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:39 pm
Dan and Gerry.
Thank you so much for your patience and work here. I know that I would be staring at pile of components in my shop if it weren't for you guys and the others on the forum.
I removed the SpindlePID lines and decided to give the HyPlugin14 a try. First attempt fail to show in the plugins- that was the Net4 version. So I read on a little further and saw that Dan had posted a Net 2 version (on page 12 of this forum) so downloaded that one. Put that file into the plugins page. So here are the steps that I took to get it to finally work. YES it finally WORKS for me!!!
Configure VFD to P01 and P02 to 2 , 163-1,164-1,165-3 - I restarted the VFD
Opened UCCNC 2017 Screenset version (found at thecncwoodworker.com)
Settings page (general page) click on configure plugins button and checked "call startup" and "enabled" buttons. Close everything and restart UCCNC.
On restart the HyPlugin14 page showed up. Click on the com down arrow to find the port your RS485 is plugged into and choose the Baud rate of 9600.
Hit connect button. and it started to talk to my Huangyand VFD for the first time. But only at the min speed. To get the full range you have to edit the "RPM DRO" setting.
To edit the box you must get into the "Edit Screen" button on the top right of the general Settings page. A pop up will happen ....here was the confusing part to me. With the new popup screen pulled out of way (grab top of bar with mouse until you can see the top control bar of the UCCNC page underneath) Now hold down the SHIFT keyboard and mouse click on the RUN tab of the 2017 Screenset. Now you looking at the Run page, mouse over the box that will show the RPM's and left click. This will populate the popup and show the settings for the Run page. In the popup the first line will read "labelnumber"-870- change that number to 2451 then click the "Apply settings", and then click on the File tab of the Popup, then click "Save screenset".
It was at that glorious moment that Everything started to work properly for me (also click the box for the auto connect on the HyPlugin14 popup to not have it show each time).
The RS485 whould be a twisted wire (a regular 18/2 wire put in a drill will put a proper twist in it). Connect the wires to Positive and RS+, and RS- terminal and match to the D+, and D- on the RS485 terminal marked on the PC board.
I think that is all the steps that I took to finally get it working. No onto some actual woodworking projects!!
John