MesaCT problems with 7i96 pwm spindle

Having ome slight problems here and was looking to see if someone could give me a hand.  I am finishing up a build and the last piece of the puzzle is the spindle and some of the outputs.

I am using a 7i96 that was reused from another machine and was set up for 4 step 1 pwm.  not sure the version of the firmware, but it should not need to be changed.  The computer is a clean install of 2.9 and the original configs from the previous machine doesn't work.  It was made using jt's 7i96 tool and then heavily modified.  so as of right now, I have most everything set up using mesaCT with some generic general values just to make sure that i can move and home each axis. so far so good.  

The spindle is 2.2kw 220v using a huanyang ec01 vfd which takes a 10v pwm signal so i have it ran through a small analog converter from the mesa board.  Now when i try and add the spindle to the config in mesaCT, all of the spindle controls are greyed out even though in options i have it set as 4 step 1 spindle and in axis, there is no spindle option right now. 

also, for some reason i can not get axis to turn on my relays either using mesaCT.  I have them set as mist/flood right now for testing, but i get nothing.  are these some bugs with mesaCT or am i just missing something obvious?  Thanks!

ok thanks jt, soon as i get to the shop i will check the pins.

btw, do you have some boilerplate code for a pwm spindle? if not i will dig in my archives and see if i can get the old spindle code working

You could use a 7I96S spindle configuration as an example.

ok so i made it out to the shop and have a rudimentary pwm signal running. but i am sill having some problems with it. it works ok from the mesa to the pwm module, i get 2.5v-4.5v when i run the spindle. my min speed is 12k and my max is 24k, so those numbers make sense, although is there a way to get closer to 5v out for max speed?

on my module, i get a constant 8.5v out which i think might be a bad module so i have one on the he way, supposed to be here to tomorrow. 

but i still cant get either the spindle on, flood, or mist pins to work.  in hal meter, it shows the pins toggling, but physically nothing happens. out of curiosity the three of them map to gpio.00.out etc, which gpio.[00-09].in are all of my inputs. is this right on a mesa? when i changed all of them to 10-12, i get error saying pin not found. 

No outputs are GPIO

7I96 isolated output hal pins are:

hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-00
hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-01
hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-02
hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-03
hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-04
hm2_7i96s.0.ssr.00.out-05
 

ahhh thanks pete!  i just came across that just a few minutes ago. i thought that looked suspect. must be a bug in jt’s config tool because thats straight out of mesaCT. 

quick question, any reason i cant get more than 4.45v out of my pwm?  ive checked everything on the hardware side and its all good there. no matter what i do, i cant get more than 4.45v max from the pwm

The STEP/DIR output voltage will be the 7I96 5V supply voltage
if there is no load. Any load will lower the output voltage.
So it could be low supply voltage, or a load on the output
The output resistance is around 50 Ohms so a 10 mA load will drop
the output voltage by about 0.5V