I’ve been going in HUGE circles attempting to get my AltMill working. Last Friday I could move and activate my PwnCNC spindle. Something went south yesterday and I could not make it move or spin. Today I issued console command $RST=$ to reset the firmware. Immediately, I could move the spindle, but when I entered m3s1200 to spin the spindle, I got an Alarm 14 (Spindle at speed timeout. Clear before continuing.)
How in the heck do I clear the error?
I did enter “$X” but this did nothing for me. I still get the Alarm14 when I reenter the command.
My guess is that you’re seeing Alarm 14 because the SLB and spindle aren’t turned on in the correct order. The controller and VFD need to “handshake” and if the conditions aren’t met, even if they’re on at the same time they won’t go through with the handshake. Now I don’t know exactly how the PWNCNC works but let’s assume that it works similarly to the Sienci spindle… Please follow these instructions in this order:
Assuming the SLB is plugged into power but turned OFF.
Plug spindle into power, the VFD should blink with red text
Then turn on the SLB using the power toggle
This should be the correct way to turn on your controller, each time, to avoid Alarm 14.
Have you contact PWNCNC about this issue before? If so what have they said?
Hey, I’m having the same problem with my PWNCNC Spindle also. Not sure if I need to buy their VFD as opposed to the one that came with the oatmeal. I can’t even access any spindle options on code 395.
I’m just guessing, double-check your wiring. Also, open gSender, in the bottom right area, click Console. In the section where it says “Enter G-Code here…” enter “$RST=$” (no quotations, I’m not sure if the letter case is important), and click the Run button.
I purchased the PwnCNC 240v VFD, the preset the following values:
P0.0.03 = 2
P0.0.04 = 9
P0.0.11 = 6
P2.0.02 = 21
P4.1.00 = 4
P4.1.01 = 3
I don’t know if the same would be true for your VFD. I suggest that you contact PwnCNC. It would be interesting to know what they suggest. I’m totally in the dark as to what these settings mean and what other values could be used. Possibly Sienci might know what the settings should be. They might not know and suggest you call PwnCNC. You might encounter finger-pointing at this time.
