So I'm sure this has been posted about before. In doing my research, I referenced a few pages here. But nowhere was I able to find any one list that had both all of the right settings, and was free of mistakes. Now I'm no expert, but I do have a good understanding of electronics. I also understand that the things I DO NOT KNOW, I am not going to post my opinion of where I "think" that setting should be.
The way this came about was that I ordered and received one of the cheap E-bay air cooled 2.2kw spindles and VFD combo. Now sure, it came with instructions. And I'm betting if I would have followed them, and changed those 4 (literally, just 4) settings that the spindle would have ran. For how long, and how well...who knows. I have heard plenty of horror stories about these, but also heard of lots of guys running them for years (and still) with no problems. So I had to get to the bottom of it. Just because this combo is cheap...well..it is still a real spindle, and a real vfd, and I really wanted to get it set up working properly with at least on/off control in Mach3.
Success! Here's how I did it:
If you search the web, you can find many lists for the settings on the Huanyang VFD. A lot of them are for water cooled spindles, or 1.5kw air cooled. As you'll see, we'll cover these as well, but I wanted to be sure that I had everything right for the 2.2KW.
I figure the easiest way to start this is from the manual. Yes, the English is terribly broken in spots, but, it still gives us access to all of the settings and what they are. Here's a copy:
http://www.exoror.com/datasheet/VFD.pdf
So, let's take this right from the start.
Step 1.) Un-Box your VFD and take the 2 screws out of the front cover. This will give you access to all of the spade terminals inside. You will see that along the bottom there is a row, labeled "R,S,T," on the left hand side and "U,V,W" on the right side. These are the only terminals we need be concerned with IN THAT ROW. The two rows above this we will get to later. So, your 220V power is going to have 2 live lines and a neutral. Usually Red, Black, and white respectively. We only need the 2 live lines. One goes to "R", and the other goes to "T". Supposedly you can also hook them to s and t, or r and s, but in every instructional video I found where people actually had the VFD working correctly, and it had lasted them a while, they were all hooked up one live to "R" and one live to "T". Ok, Now your VFD has power. I put one leg through a switch, so that the fan doesn't sit there running constantly. No reason for the VFD to be on when I'm not even in the show
Loren