Huanyang v1 VFD via RS485

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I am in the process of replacing my xPRO v5 with a SLB. I am documenting this and plan to post the journey once everything is working. The biggest hurdle so far has been that my PC does not want to talk to the SLB via USB. I have Ethernet working.

I have movement, homing and probing working. Now I just need the SLB to talk to my VFD for my spindle to spin.

I am running gSender 1.4.7 and the SBL is running B5.0.5

I have followed the Example Setup in the SLB manual.

  1. I have set $395 to Huanyang v1 (1) - This is my only spindle and I don’t have a laser.
  2. I have set $511, $512 and $513 to disabled (8)
  3. I have $476 set to 2 (the documents show setting a $477 to 2 - there is no $477)
  4. I have verified the PD settings in the VFD. The xPRO had me set the baud rate to 9600 and the Comm Address to 1. I changed these setting PD163 to 2 and PD164 to 2 reflect the SLB. i.e. Comm Address to 2 and baud rate to 19200. (The documents show PD163 should match $477 - there is no $477)

On the spindle tab of gSender shows SLB_LASER and will not allow me to select Huanyang v1.

I am at a loss. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. I have attached the Diagnostics report.
diagnostics_7-1-2024_17-12-02.pdf (28.7 KB)

Thanks,
James W. McKeand

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Don’t know why it is working now, but it seems to have fixed itself.

I ran diff on two gSender firmware exported settings .json files. One was from about 5:30 pm yesterday and the other from this morning (taken once spindle was spinning). The only differences are on the $30 and $31 settings. The working settings have quotes around the RPMs and trailing zeros.
Working Line: “$30”: “24000.000”,
Non-Working Line: “$30”: 24000,

Incase anyone is interested here is a new diagnostic and a copy of the working .json file.
diagnostics_7-2-2024_09-45-48.pdf (28.3 KB)
gSender-firmware-settings-7_2_2024-9_24_53 AM.json (2.7 KB)

Hope this is helpful to anyone else. I will put the wraps on my journey documentation once I can get something carved and photos taken.

Thanks,
James W. McKeand