Hey all...I have a chncI with siemens control and a fanuc spindle drive. The drive is not outputting power to the spindle motor. The drive repair guy says it is because the encoder is not outputting a signal and the Hardinge guy says BS because the drive doesn't require one to work. He says it is only used for spindle sync functions. The drive repair guys want their money and I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. If I have to call a hardinge guy in, it's going to cost me several hundred bucks (at least). Anybody know for sure if the encoder has to work? BTW, never had any trouble threading, etc, so I'm not sure how confident I am in the drive repair guy. Most of the time I can't even get the machine off reset to home it, so I'm thinking it isn't the encoder, since the drive isn't getting a signal to do anything at that point. BTW, when I can get it to reset, as soon as I try to start the spindle it will fault after a few seconds and during the time before it faults, no power is coming out of the drive. Drive or encoder? Ideas?