[jaru-eri]

Posted this in the Taig area

I now control the speed with C69 by CNC4PC

Stuart

Thankyou for the information. Do the 3 wires at the lower left have something to do with the speed adjustment or are they for something else? And can the c69 be used as an interface for controlling the speed through Mach3?

[sclelectronics]

Thankyou for the information. Do the 3 wires at the lower left have something to do with the speed adjustment or are they for something else? And can the c69 be used as an interface for controlling the speed through Mach3?

In the lower right of the photo, is the 6 position connector plugs into the controller.
On the left, centered in the photo is the potentiometer. Just giving you a reference to where the wires go.....

Also, yes I can control the speed directly through Mach 3 now...
My Taig is controlled through an ESS. I am using the 2nd port on the ESS to control the C69 speed control board.


The latest ESS plug-in allow speed governing.
So I just setup my rpm pulse sensor...I am using hall effect sensor for this.


So I have a lot of tweaking to do now!!

Stuart

[peter.steele]

In the lower right of the photo, is the 6 position connector plugs into the controller.
On the left, centered in the photo is the potentiometer. Just giving you a reference to where the wires go.....

Also, yes I can control the speed directly through Mach 3 now...
My Taig is controlled through an ESS. I am using the 2nd port on the ESS to control the C69 speed control board.



Stuart

I know this is an old thread, but I'm really hoping you could provide some more details of the ESS - C69 setup that you've got going. I have a spare ESS and a C6 board laying around, and I'd like to put them to use with one of these motors on a lathe. (C69 is pretty much the same as C6, just doesn't take up a whole parallel port.)

[sclelectronics]

No real magic here....
In the ESS plugin:
I configured the port 2 on my ESS... Just like Port 1.
Also setup the required PWM freq.

Then under Ports and Pins, for port 2
I enabled pin 14...Spindle PWM.

Finally on the C69, adjust the control voltage to 5 volts when at max rpm...

hth,
Stuart

[peter.steele]

No real magic here....
In the ESS plugin:
I configured the port 2 on my ESS... Just like Port 1.
Also setup the required PWM freq.

Then under Ports and Pins, for port 2
I enabled pin 14...Spindle PWM.

Finally on the C69, adjust the control voltage to 5 volts when at max rpm...

hth,
Stuart

Thanks.

Just to make sure I've got this all...

(1) Analog output of C69 goes to the wiper on the pot, when tuned to 5v max output
(2) Analog ground of C69 goes to the COM pin on the pot
(3) potentiometer reference voltage doesn't get used, because it's insanely high and you don't want to let the smoke out of the speed control board?

Are you using the relay output for anything? I saw a thing from one guy that used an NO relay on that line to force it to 0V in order to avoid the controller error thing where it thinks the hall sensor has failed.

You're not using any external circuits to tweak the power level? Just the potentiometer on the C69?