My 110v 800w air cooled spindle will not spin. It's got less than 10hours of use. Is there a way I can bypass the VFD and power the spindle to prove that it's the spindle and not the VFD.?
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My 110v 800w air cooled spindle will not spin. It's got less than 10hours of use. Is there a way I can bypass the VFD and power the spindle to prove that it's the spindle and not the VFD.?
I suppose you could borrow someone else's VFD, but no; you need an inverter to provide the 3-phase power the spindle actually runs on.
Thanks, Kinda thought so. I was always going to upgrade to water cooled and I guess the time is now. Just hope it's the spindle. Unless there's a way to check out the VFD.
Does the VFD display appear to be working?
Unplug the spindle, and check the resistance of the 3 wires to each other. You should get 3 identical readings.
It's working. I reset the VFD PD013 = 8. Then reprogrammed the VFD. plugged it in and it works. The only explanation I can think of that there must have been a surge or something that screwed up the settings. It had been working for almost a year without incident.
I'm not sure what you mean. It's a 110V VFD that came with a plug attached to it. I set up my electronics enclosure with a Gecko G540 a Mean Well 48V PS 14 gauge THHN on the AC side and 16 gauge on the DC side. I installed a receptacle for the VFD to plug into. It's been working for a year without incident until 2 weeks ago. After reprogramming the VFD all's well.
The wire you used would be questionable ( construction wire) you have to take installations like this seriously, you are dealing with industrial components and have to be wired to code requirements
Where did you buy a VFD Drive that already had the cable attached, this would not of been from the manufacture with a cable attached
I'm still having problems. It seems if I haven't used my CNC for a while the VFD loses the settings. So I'll reprogram it and see if that's the problem. I'm not sure what you mean by you shouldn't unplug and plug the VFD. Mine is wired into my control box and comes on when I turn on my control box, but how is that different than pulling the plug and switching it on and off?