I will definitely read the on going discussion after this post. I addressed it with the zip file for Kelevra83 and hopefully he replies back with success and then I will post a revised version.
Thanks for your help,
Dan
I will definitely read the on going discussion after this post. I addressed it with the zip file for Kelevra83 and hopefully he replies back with success and then I will post a revised version.
Thanks for your help,
Dan
Hey guys,
I will give this a shot as soon as I get home from work.
The culture info issue makes sense though since I'm using a german windows.
Regards
//edit:
Here's an update guys.
I've gotten the Plugin to work now and it performs beautiful, the only slight negative is a delay when adjusting spindle speed on the fly but i can live with that.
The new zip you uploaded didn't work though Dan. It causes the relay of the VFD to trigger but it didn't set rpm.
The key thing to get it working was that i had to change windows to english and all the problems went away magically.
Currently i'm running it on 1.2029 with the Plugin version 1.0006 and so far i havent expierienced any crash at all.
Thanks alot to everyone for the help and the hints, and maybe Dan can use some of the information to fix this little thing with the next update.
If i left anything unclear feel free to ask.
regards
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
I'm glad the plugin is working for you. The Kelevra83 zip file I uploaded for you was slapped together quickly and was meant to see if you comp stopped crashing and was a culture info class problem, not to control your VFD.
Just a heads up Patrick, that version your using has the UCCNC spindle pulley's implemented in it so make sure you keep spindle pulleys checkbox unchecked, otherwise it will set your frequency to the ratio of pulley selected in UCCNC.
Also I haven't really fully tested other than with a Serial Monitor so consider yourself a beta tester...LOL
The delay your referring to is with the spindle override, and yes was something I seen and intend to tweak. This is sort of the same issue that caused the cultureinfo problem, its being calculated in a thread that the cultureinfo wasn't addressed in.
These issues will be addressed in the plugins final version.
Dan
Did you change your Sact field on run screen to 2050 from 870 per instructions??
If not the plugin is continually writing frequency's and will cause a much longer delay. I strongly suggest you do this than you will also see what your RPM is at whatever percent you have spindle override set to.
Yes, that is the delay I was referring to in post #56 that I found annoying. Did have a snow day (Blizzard) here today and had a chance to look at it and not sure if its worth the troubles to fix. You can click on the override percent as quick as you like and that updates instantly, but it takes the RPM that 1/2 second to catch up. Each click is sending a frequency to the VFD. I probably can have the RPM update instant like the percent but it still going to be that delay for the VFD to read and respond. If it was actual RPM it would take longer for the spindle to actually reach that speed.
Dan
Yeah that makes sense.
Would have been great to use a potentiometer with an arduino or an encoder connected directly to the controller to adjust the overrides of the spindle and the feed on the fly but if its just the vfd not catching up fast enough its a whole different story.
Thanks a ton for all your effort dan, i really appreciate it.
Patrick
Unfortunately you are using the UC400 and that does not have any analogue inputs. If you had a UC300ETH you could easily connect a potentiometer since that has two analogue inputs as well as two analogue outputs. So, if you want to save time and effort you should get a UC300ETH.