Controlling a Solenoid Valve Through Fusion 360

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Hello Everyone,

I have a Shapeoko 3 XXL and want to control a solenoid valve using the control board and Fusion 360. Does anyone have experience with this? Ultimately, I want to control turning an airbrush on and off. What is the wiring required from the control board, and what functions/settings in Fusion would be best to use? Any help would be appreciated, especially on the control board side. Thanks.

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The Grbl folks should have the underlying concepts/capabilities written up for this:

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But, correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t believe the Carbide folks designed their motion controller to have that capability. We can only control the spindle.

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Correct, but pins are pins, and the software doesn’t know what’s connected to them, so various things are possible (but unsupported)

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Thanks for your reply. So would I be right in that I can hook the PWM on the control board to a relay that hooks into my solenoid? I could then use either spindle speed or spindle state commands in Fusion to turn the solenoid on/off?

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