Messages

11

General Mach Discussion / Re: Filpping the direction of the x-axis all by itself

« on: July 17, 2011, 10:05:55 AM »

It's version R3.043.022 that is current on your site.

It doesn't always happen on some bad code. I don't always notice exactly when it happens, but I'll try
to make notes on what I was doing when it does.

12

General Mach Discussion / Filpping the direction of the x-axis all by itself

« on: July 16, 2011, 07:25:44 PM »

About once every half an hour to an hour the program reverses the direction of my X axis.

The way I know that it has happened is on the main screen, the yellow light flashes on the "Scale" for the X Axis, and the number switches from +1.0000
to -1.000.

The only way I have found to fix it is to shut down and restart the program. This is really slowing things down for me.

There seems to be no rhyme nor reason when it will happen. I haven't been making config changes.



Any suggestions?

Thanks!

13

General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing offset, kind of

« on: July 13, 2011, 06:06:36 PM »

Thanks! That's exactly what I have been looking for.

A value of 2 was all it took to reliably home without limit errors.

14

General Mach Discussion / Homing offset, kind of

« on: July 13, 2011, 05:18:55 PM »

I am using my limits switches for home switches.

My problem is that when I home to a microswitch it sets off the limit travel as soon as the homing is done.

My understanding is that when Mach3 homes it will activate the switch and them back off until it turns off and sets home there.

My problem is the switch is triggering again since it's so close to the active position causing a travel limit error.

Is there a way to specify a distance for the system to back off the switch after homing?

Just .020" would take care of it.


Thanks