AXBB-E Mach3 spindle settings ??

[n0f8r]

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?

[cncdrive]

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.

[n0f8r]

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.

[cncdrive]

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.