Secondary spindle on 7i76e

This is a special VFD so no Modbus here at all unfortunately, only 5 - 10 or 24V so 10V it will be.

pl7i92 wrote: you can configure the pin 1 of the BOB as output PWM ((( PIN 1 in NOT Connected)))

Is the pin1 on BOB IO34 on P2 on the 7i96e ?

Don't forget that master branch supports multi spindle and there is changed gcodes so you can select the spindle you want at any time. That would be much better long term.

OK, but....

All updates etc will have to be manually done = me no like
Will wait until 2.8 is in the open so to speak.

Well Andy assures us it upgrades itself but if it fails, it is not that hard really. Should be able to knock it over in 1-2 hours. I personally think master branch is the way to go now. 2.7 is really long in the tooth and the lack of an upgrade schedule just pushes things out.

Has to be a lot easier than me migrating to Plasmac which only took a morning amd a couple more hours tidying up my config which had become quite messy with all of the experiemnts. So once you build your controller for your plasma cutter it will all be easy! In fact, Phill rolled out 2 update today (maybe more) and it wa sa 30 second job to recompile the changed code.

Todd is much better at explaining this ( so are some other users but i remember Todd answering to spindle stuff very often ), but i think you can use the "gearbox" system that many use, and remove everything except the part where it enables one or the other spindle. So for a set of speeds it enables spindle 1 and for the other set of speeds it enables spindle 2. Also you would have to add some offsets attached to those outputs so you do not have to centre the spindles manually, to have it fully automated.