I just installed a PWN 80mm air cooled spindle on my recently upgraded Woodworker to the Elite system.
On my first cut the spindle started upon loading a file and pressing cycle start. Machine went to the wrong location even though xyz were set using the probe - probably user error and something I need to sort out. However upon probing again and starting the job over again (did rewind the file before cut) the spindle did not turn on and attempted to perform the cut. Hit the emergency stop as soon as I could, but this resulted in a blown fuse (10A 250V) in the Elite power supply. Set the spindle on the PWN VFD to operate on manual and the spindle operates fine, so nothing wrong with the spindle.
Replaced the fuse today and set the VFD back to Auto. Turn the power on the VFD. Turned on the Elite power supply, cycled the emergency stop and homed the machine. Go to the F2 page on the Masso and press spindle CW. The spindle does not turn. I can hear a click in the Elite power supply when I press the CW button and click again when I press the spindle stop button.
All wires and connectors are tight. I could use some help in what to try next.
First the fuse has nothing to do with the spindle since the power is going to be coming from an outside source. If you had the vfd plugged into your elite, you can’t do that, second, that would explain the blown fuse.
If not, can you control it manually?
If so you mentioned upgrading from black box to elite, have you updated the parameters? If it worked with the elite when you described it, what changed aside from the blown fuse?
The VFD is plugged into a separate AC circuit from the Elite power supply. The spindle control cable is plugged into the bottom of the Masso controller for spindle.
I can control the spindle from the VFD manually, but that is not how I expect to operate it.
Either the Elite PS shipped with a blown fuse or it was caused by the bit in the spindle (3/4” bowl bit) contacting the material without the spindle rotating. I doubt the fuse arrived to me blown.
What parameters are you referring to?
That’s the issue and mystery. Nothing changed aside from the replacement of the blown fuse.
The spindle is configured on the F1 screen as directed by PWN CNC. This was done when first installed a few days ago, I forgot that I had done so.
What I did not do is test the spindle function from the Masso controller using the MDI command s6000 and then pressing the Spindle CW button as suggested by the PWN CNC instructions. Worked like a charm.
Okay, so the Masso controller is playing nice with the spindle. Too late to try more tonight. Tomorrow more testing and running the same file from a few days ago.
Thankful for the support and reporting to you and others that I believe I have a working machine and this thread has reached its conclusion so that nobody else need spend their valuable time offering advice.