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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 2803, ESS, and homing slaved motors
« on: February 16, 2016, 12:20:38 PM »
I'm running into an issue with setting up homing on this machine, which has dual motors on the Y axis. If I configure a single home switch (motor 1) on the axis it works as expected, stopping when the switch is activated. If I go so far as to configure but not enable the second switch (motor 2) in Mach's config, it blows past the previously working home switch (motor 1) and I have to stop the machine manually before it crashes. The same thing also happens if I enable the second switch. This seems to me like a bug in Mach...
My end goal is to set this axis up to self-align the gantry the two motors are on. I've searched around and found lots of "it doesn't work in Mach4 yet" and a couple mentions of "there's a workaround". Does anyone here know what's going on and how to get this to work, or what this supposed workaround might be?
My end goal is to set this axis up to self-align the gantry the two motors are on. I've searched around and found lots of "it doesn't work in Mach4 yet" and a couple mentions of "there's a workaround". Does anyone here know what's going on and how to get this to work, or what this supposed workaround might be?