+Brett Zahler What would you like to see? I can take a video this weekend. There is no braking resistor, the VFD is doing that on its own (by shorting the phases of the motor together, pretty effective method). It works well enough that I don't believe any added resistance would be worth the effort.
+Tim Marks It would be cool to see how you made the cover and wired it up. Is that a remote panel or the VFD's display? Be careful that your chuck doesn't unscrew it's self stopping it that fast. I Have a VFD on my 16" SB and Bridgeport But trying to understand the manual to set it up is not fun in my book. Time to make that Lathe dirty!
+Brett Zahler Which VFD do you have? the manuals can be a pain but if you tell me what you have and what you are trying to accomplish I may be able to help.
+Tim Marks It is a Huanyang. I got everything to work except jog, but now that I have been using the lathe I don't think I need it I just loosen the belt to move the chuck to get to a wrench hole.
+Thomas Utley Yes! vibration on the machine is more or less eliminated now (by improving my bonding technique) but the tracking is still there. What I realized it's very important to avoid any increased overall thickness at the joint or else it will cause an increase in tension as the joint rotates around both pulleys, resulting in vibration. But, the darn tracking is still an issue and I've fiddled with all adjustments. Clearly I haven't figured it all out yet.
What VFD did you use. ? Did you build the control panel.? A video on the control panel would be awesome. Very well done! Looks great!
Teco 1hp JNEV series with 110VAC input. Super nice unit for this type of lathe.
Yes a video of your panel would be awesome! Did you use a breaking resistor for stopping or is it all with the VFD?
+Brett Zahler What would you like to see? I can take a video this weekend. There is no braking resistor, the VFD is doing that on its own (by shorting the phases of the motor together, pretty effective method). It works well enough that I don't believe any added resistance would be worth the effort.
+Tim Marks It would be cool to see how you made the cover and wired it up. Is that a remote panel or the VFD's display? Be careful that your chuck doesn't unscrew it's self stopping it that fast. I Have a VFD on my 16" SB and Bridgeport But trying to understand the manual to set it up is not fun in my book. Time to make that Lathe dirty!
+Brett Zahler Which VFD do you have? the manuals can be a pain but if you tell me what you have and what you are trying to accomplish I may be able to help.
+Tim Marks It is a Huanyang. I got everything to work except jog, but now that I have been using the lathe I don't think I need it I just loosen the belt to move the chuck to get to a wrench hole.
What type of spindle do you have? If it's threaded do you have any issue with the chuck unthreading by stopping that fast?
New belt?
+Thomas Utley Yes! vibration on the machine is more or less eliminated now (by improving my bonding technique) but the tracking is still there. What I realized it's very important to avoid any increased overall thickness at the joint or else it will cause an increase in tension as the joint rotates around both pulleys, resulting in vibration.
But, the darn tracking is still an issue and I've fiddled with all adjustments. Clearly I haven't figured it all out yet.