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General Mach Discussion / I must be losing it
« on: July 25, 2008, 04:15:25 AM »
I'm truly at wits end and am open to any of your good or otherwise suggestions.
My setup is a C23, Smooth stepper, Mach3 and all limit/home switches are hall.
On the mach3 diagnostics page all the 'input signal current state' LED's are perfect accept for the M3++ & M3Home which read the opposite of what I want (on my system M3 is the Z axis as normal).
Immediately I assumed (assumption being the mother of all...)it must have been the 'Active Low' selection in the input ports configuration page as the LED's in the diagnostics page switched perfectly but were switching the opposite way from what I'd like.
Then I inverted the 'Active Low' setting in the input port page and returned to the diagnostics page which was still doing exactly the same thing even if I save the config and close/restart the software. If I invert the 'Active Low' on any other input port it inverts the respective LED on the inputs page, just not for M3's.
I'm assuming that the hardware is sound insofar as all the hall switches are switching in exactly the same manner and use the same supplies.
Painfully I know it'll end up something small like a selection bit somewhere but I'll just so over the moon when I find it that even the pain of my stupidity won't ruin the momentÂ
My setup is a C23, Smooth stepper, Mach3 and all limit/home switches are hall.
On the mach3 diagnostics page all the 'input signal current state' LED's are perfect accept for the M3++ & M3Home which read the opposite of what I want (on my system M3 is the Z axis as normal).
Immediately I assumed (assumption being the mother of all...)it must have been the 'Active Low' selection in the input ports configuration page as the LED's in the diagnostics page switched perfectly but were switching the opposite way from what I'd like.
Then I inverted the 'Active Low' setting in the input port page and returned to the diagnostics page which was still doing exactly the same thing even if I save the config and close/restart the software. If I invert the 'Active Low' on any other input port it inverts the respective LED on the inputs page, just not for M3's.
I'm assuming that the hardware is sound insofar as all the hall switches are switching in exactly the same manner and use the same supplies.
Painfully I know it'll end up something small like a selection bit somewhere but I'll just so over the moon when I find it that even the pain of my stupidity won't ruin the momentÂ