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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: bbrown2005 on February 16, 2009, 06:34:56 PM

Title: edge finder
Post by: bbrown2005 on February 16, 2009, 06:34:56 PM

hi
i have a edge finder i soldered a wire to and hooked to 5v then run another wire that clips to my work and is hooked to pin 12 on my bob right now i just have it set to trigger a estop when it touches how would be the correct way to hook it up and is their a plug in that i need to make it work? thanks

Title: Re: edge finder
Post by: scudzuki on February 17, 2009, 08:35:22 AM

I don't think you want it to trigger an estop as positioning is lost when an estop is triggered. There is another pin for probing, pin 15 in my setup.
Joe

Title: Re: edge finder
Post by: bbrown2005 on February 17, 2009, 08:02:05 PM

how is yours set up? do you have it as a probe on inputs and do you have any extra plugin beside just mach 3? thanks

Title: Re: edge finder
Post by: Chaoticone on February 17, 2009, 08:33:22 PM

This thread may help.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,10088.0.html

Brett