Hi, I'm just in the process of adding home/limit switches to my new little mill - didn't bother on the last one but I keep running the Z-axis up to the top stop so I thought I'd better add them. However, each time I start up EMC2 and hit Home for the Z-axis, it ends up at a different reading. i.e. EMC2 doesn't seem to be consistent in how it starts and the Homing procedure doesn't reset the home position. For example - I have set the ini file to home to 0.00 and then to back off to -2.00 (it is +2.0 in the ini file..). I just closed down EMC2 and restarted it and hit Home for the Z-axis. The machine did its thing and settled where it should physically - just off the switch - but the AXIS readout said -4.000. I repeated the shutting down and restarting and this time it settled in the same physical position reading -3.500. Another time it read 5.220 - in each case, all I have done is start EMC2, jog the Z-axis away from ) a bit and hit the Home button in AXIS so I haven't affected any of the other functions at all. Is there no way that the display can be automatically made to reset itself to the ini file setting ( in this case -2.000) when an axis is homed or do I have to manually 'touch off' each time. Surely that can't be right..... Thanks,
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