CNC Spindle stopped spinning

Snapmaker 2.0
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Been loving the Snapmaker 2 (large one).
And have been CNCing a bunch of foam molds. However, half-way through a job today the spindle stopped spinning!

Everything else is working fine. But the spindle stopped. Here’s what I’ve tried:

  • Restarting everything.
  • Running older jobs that I know worked before.
  • Replacing the collet, and the bit.
  • Checked all the connections to the controller and to the cnc head.
  • Removed the side of the CNC head and checked the connections there.
  • Sent M3 and M5 commands to the machine via luban and got back “ok”
  • Changed spindle speed to 100% from 50% in settings.

What’s weird is that Snapmaker reports “RPM 0” when the job is running.
Can someone please help me with this. Much appreciated.

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Well, it sounds like it’s accurately reporting the actual spindle speed. Contact the manufacturer for a replacement work head.

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I’m running a long print so I can’t check right now.
But I believe you can manually turn on the spindle from the control pad. (
Have you tried that?

-S

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I haven’t. How do you do that?

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Really? You can’t figure that out yourself?

Try looking under the control settings. Should be a spindle speed choice where you can turn it on.
I don’t have cnc set up now to check.

-S