On Monday 30 June 2014 13:02:07 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: > I'm sorry I wasn't clear if you have two switches per axis on separate > inputs and one switch goes to pos and one goes to neg then you can only > jog in the correct direction after checking the box and turning the > power on. If you have only one input per axis then Axis can't tell > which way to allow you to jog so you can jog the wrong way. In any > case once a limit has been tripped in Axis you will have to check the > box, turn power on then jog off the switch. > > On a stepper machine you want to set VOLATILE_HOME = 1 which forces you > to home after tripping a home switch. > > JT
Home sw, or limit sw? No home switches on this toy. :) But I don't recall it un-homing the axis. Does it actually lose that position in the process of stopping? Thanks JT. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
