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« on: March 23, 2015, 06:27:35 AM »
Slow zones are only meant when jogging via keyboard or MPG, they will not slow the axes down whilst homing.
When you home the axes should move, one at a time to their respective home switches at the % of full rapid you have set, for example if you have 100ipm set in motor tuning and in Homing and limits you have 20% then the axes will move at 20% of 100IPM which is 20IPM.
Once the home switch is seen the axis will back off and when the switch goes inactive Mach will set that as the Home position (Machine Coords Zero) Unless you have a Home Off value set, if you do then Mach will set the current position to that Home Off value in the machine coords DRO.
Worth noting Home Off stands for Home Offset and is NOT the amount Mach will move away from the switch once homed, it is the value that Mach will set the machine coords to. For example, say your X axis is 100 inch long and you home to the right side of the X axis, you would then set 100 in the Home Off box and when you Home Mach will set the machine coords DRO to 100, that will mean Mach knows the machine coords zero is 100 inch to the left.
Rearding toggling the home switches and watching on Diagnostics, what is meant is you physically trip the switches and you should see the corresponding LED light up on the diagnostics page.
Hood