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Hi, thanks for your reply...that has helped me quite a lot. X and Z, yes I hit Y for some reason and not Z.:o

Hi, I have converted a lathe to cnc, and I am a bit stuck,it is to do with setting the tools on the lathe. I was watching a guy on you tube and he was setting his tools on x and y, he set them all up...

Hi Mactec,
Some confusion here, I don't have a 400hz spindle.I did get it running in Mach4 from the keypad.... that is what I did first, the motor I wanted to control is a 3phase that turns the...

Hi Mactec,

I think these settings are for a Spindle, what I need is to be able to control the speed of a 3phase motor mounted on the lathe that just turns the chuck.

I have set the vfd so it...

Ok thanks

Well I can now get the motor to start from Mach4, but whatever speed setting I use the motor just runs up to 50hz, well that is a start anyway :D

Thanks a lot for that, I will give it a go today and see what happens :)

Hi,
I have a 2.2kw 240v single phase in, and 240v 3 phase out Powtran Pi9000 vfd, and also an ESS smoothstepper board, the problem I have is I want to control the speed of the 3phase motor on my...

Hi, I have recently bought a new Honden L850B lathe to convert to CNC, if anyone needs parts for one of these lathes,just let me know.

Hi, I have a problem wiring my VFD, it is a Powtran P19000.
It is 240v single phase in and 240v 3 phase out, on the input side there is a "R and T " terminal, and the Ground. The power from the...

Hi, I am from Tassie, living in N.S.W. now.

Peter:wave:

Hi, I am only new to this site and I was just reading a few posts and had a comment about the carbon tax the government want's to bring in here.
I thought we had one already on power called "G.S.T"...