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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing switches accuracy
« on: April 26, 2013, 08:35:11 AM »
You are not going to manage that successfully via a macro I am afraid. It will be far too slow. Ideally it needs done in the hardware and the SS/ESS does not support Index homing, in fact very few controllers available for Mach do support this.
On my machines with SmoothSteppers I do the index homing in my servo drives as they support this function. On my other machines I use the CSMIO controllers from CS-Lab and they support Index Homing.
Your best option would be enclosed optical switches, they are very accurate and being enclosed you dont have to worry about much or coolant. You cant buy them however they are relatively easy to make.
Hood
On my machines with SmoothSteppers I do the index homing in my servo drives as they support this function. On my other machines I use the CSMIO controllers from CS-Lab and they support Index Homing.
Your best option would be enclosed optical switches, they are very accurate and being enclosed you dont have to worry about much or coolant. You cant buy them however they are relatively easy to make.
Hood