On Sunday 06 June 2010, Neil Baylis wrote: >Many printers & plotters do not use limit switches. Instead, they move the >print head slowly towards the end stop until the motor stalls, and then > back off from that point a certain distance and that's the home position > or soft limit. > >What, roughly, do I need to do with EMC to get this behavior? > That generally does work well at all. The reason is that when it jams, it jams at the steppers max torque, and it takes a random number of steps in the other direction, and even some hand help at times, to break it loose again.
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