I just assembled my AltMill over the last couple of days. I’m running the control tests and everything works except the spindle. I downloaded the g code and ran it. I went through the turning everything off and back on in sequence routine. I selected the H100 spindle. I tell it to run and I get the screen notification that the spindle is on….. Except it’s a dead as a doornail. Not running at all.
Also, every time I first run Gsender, it gives me an error telling me Alarm 10 “ Estop asserted. clear and reset.”
I’m sure I’m just not doing something properly but I have no clue. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
What I found is that when I rebooted everything, I had to run the spindle test gcode again to get the spindle to run. Also, it seems that the Estop’s default position is locked upon the first powering up of the machine.
I encountered what I believe to be the same thing last night during my setup process. The spindle did not initially work but I rebooted twice and ran the spindle gcode twice and then it worked. I’m not exactly sure what part of the process got it working but I do know it didn’t work on the first try despite following the instructions carefully.