On 26 April 2012 14:01, Mike Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm planning to wire my limit and estop switches to a relay that will cut
> power to the spindle, disable the stepper drivers and inform Linux CNC that
> an estop has occured.  I want do this this as otherwise there may be no way
> to stop the machine if a software error occurs.

It would be unusual to disable steppers drives upon hitting the limit switch.
A better safeguard against software failure is a watchdog.

>  If I feed an output from this switch back into the PC is it
> possible to limit the maximum jog rate while the button is held in, so I
> can't accidently jog at high speed in the wrong direction?

Yes, wire feed-override from a mux2 controlled by the jog-override pin.

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atp
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