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General Mach Discussion / Re: Screen help
« on: January 17, 2011, 02:30:55 PM »
Possibly a macropump or Brain?
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..... if you hit the actual E-stop button, it will kick off the 50 amp contactor and kill power to all drives and the VFD. So, that is about as safe as I know to do it and what machmotion recommends.
I thought I read somewhere that to set home, you hit the limit and then back it off just a tad and tell the machine that is home? This is just from memory...
Can I use seperate inputs and tell mach they are home switches and not limits?
Another option I guess I could do is hook LEDs to the original home switches and just run the motor up slow until the LED comes on and tell mach that is home. I could just put LED's on the panel permanently for this indication in order to "recalibrate" periodically. Any need for this?I would use switches rather than that method but yes it could be done.
I am sure I may be asking some dumb questions, but I am trying to educate myself ahead of time. This may be more clear to me as I actually get the machine working. Right now I am just waiting on parts and preparing.Very wise thing to do, questions are never dumb if you are not sure and often you will get many different answers which can give you a better and more informed route on which to proceed.
I am going to call Machmotion and see what they recommend today.