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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: jhandel on March 31, 2021, 11:12:38 PM

Title: probing cycle only seeking 0.125" then gives up?
Post by: jhandel on March 31, 2021, 11:12:38 PM

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where the setting is that might control the distance the probe will seek before giving up? its only moving .125" per seek then it gives up saying the probe didn't hit anything..  can get it to move further with prep move, but then it complains it hit something during the prep move..

Ideally when I start a probe routine it would move until it hit something or triggered... dug around and never found a setting that made since..

Thanks

Title: Re: probing cycle only seeking 0.125" then gives up?
Post by: Graham Waterworth on April 01, 2021, 08:42:47 PM

In MDI enter G31 G91 Z-1. F2. and see if it moves down 1" before stopping, make sure you are in fresh air and not going to crash.

You can trigger the probe at any point and it should stop.

Title: Re: probing cycle only seeking 0.125" then gives up?
Post by: jhandel on April 02, 2021, 08:17:08 AM

Not sure why, but booted up this morning and that command worked and then the probe/touch off screen started working too... so yah... weird, but working now.

Thanks for the suggested test!