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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 08, 2023, 08:52:28 AM »

FiveO,

I have the same problem like You - https://warp9td.com/index.php/kunena/7-general-discussion/9456-ess-homing-setup-failure

I'm glad I'm not the only one.  I haven't been able to get on the warptd forums... my registration email never arrived, and the email I sent to support has not yet been answered.  Are there any helpful hints in the thread you listed?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 08, 2023, 08:49:46 AM »

Craig, my switches are all proximity sensors... are there advantages to using mechanical switches?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 07, 2023, 03:38:55 PM »

It makes sense, I just never thought about it since that's the way the machine came wired. Thanks again for the input and taking the time to reply. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 10:04:18 PM »

lol!  Well it sounds like I need to take it apart and do some rewiring.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 09:42:48 PM »

Thanks for the response and taking the time to take a look.  I wasn't the one who set it up originally, but to be fair it has worked fine this way with Mach3.  Of course, you are correct that the system has no way of knowing which limit has been hit. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 08:11:03 PM »

All of my limit switches communicate on port1-pin10.  I've attached the ESS inputs screen as well as the Control>Inputs.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 06:55:33 PM »

here's my homing tab

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 06:51:48 PM »

Axes A,B&C were all included in the homing.  I set them to 0 and restarted everything... now when I attempt to home, i first get an ESS error: "Homing setup failure. No home switch is assigned to that input.", then "referencing is complete", then a repeat of the error above.

from a fresh start of mach 4, the history shows:
E-Stop cleared!
Home switch X Home tripped!
Home switch X Home tripped!
Home switch Y Home tripped!
Home switch Z Home tripped!
Limit switch X ++ tripped!
Limit switch Y ++ tripped!
Limit switch Z ++ tripped!
Limit switch X -- tripped!
Limit switch Y -- tripped!
E-Stop condition!
E-Stop cleared!
E-Stop cleared!
ESS: Mach4 Enabled
!!!!!!!ESS: Homing Prep FAILED for Axis 2 - ESS Motor 2 - MOTOR NOT ENABLED!!!!!!
-----ESS: ERROR!  No ESS Motor being homed!!! Homing will probably not work...
!!!!!!!ESS: Homing Prep FAILED for Axis 0 - ESS Motor 0 - MOTOR NOT ENABLED!!!!!!
-----ESS: ERROR!  No ESS Motor being homed!!! Homing will probably not work...


Is this a normal progression?  lol. I assume the initial "...tripped notices" are just the ESS getting caught up with the restart of Mach4?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 03:44:40 PM »

I'll check that as soon as I get home...The screenset I am using is the wxrouter.set. Hope that solves it! thx

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4+ESS / Homing Error- Motor Not Enabled

« on: March 06, 2023, 02:09:43 PM »

I must be missing something obvious... Setting up Mach4/ ESS.  Copied all the settings over from mach3. I can jog on all axes, limit switches fire appropriately when I jog too far. Everything seems good until I attempt to home the axes. I get the following error:
!!!!!!!ESS: Homing Prep FAILED for Axis 2 - ESS Motor 2 - MOTOR NOT ENABLED!!!!!!

I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, latest versions of Mach4 and ESS
Motors are set to home 2(Z), 0(X), 1(Y).
I have looked at the few other posts regarding this error, but nothing seems to fit my situation. 

If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful!