Initially I would just try 'and-ing' the 2 in hal or classic ladder and run
strait to the home input.  (Not using the home to index)

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 11:20 PM Feral Engineer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Mechanical switch and a proximity sensor (mechanical on 7i76 input 5, prox
> on input 30, powered by output 15 after latching input 5)
>
> Stepper motors, 7i76e board, emco pc turn 55. It originally had this setup
> (dual switch and prox home sequence). Tried doing this a while back but
> gave up, then had the idea to try and circumvent the weird return to random
> spot via ladder logic, to no avail.
>
> Phil T.
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> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:15 AM Sam Sokolik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So your not using an actual encoder to home but using a home switch and
> an
> > 'index' pulse.   Thinking out loud - in a normal homing sequence - the
> > index would reset the encoder counts to zero.  In effect you don't have
> > that functionality.   Is this steppers?  Using a Stepgens of some kind?
> > Maybe that needs to be reset somehow?  Again - thinking out loud and it
> is
> > late.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 10:58 PM Feral Engineer <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Finally getting back around to messing with this mechanical/prox home
> > > issue. See attached video link. I show what it is doing and explain
> what
> > I
> > > want it to do.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your help
> > >
> > > https://youtu.be/XVz6v2YNXJQ
> > >
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