On Tuesday 17 June 2014 08:52:49 andy pugh did opine And Gene did reply: > On 16 June 2014 17:37, chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > My question on limit-switch is, that i want to use it too as a probe > > test, so i can tune my stepper-motors a bit. > > I am a bit puzzled about what you are trying to do here. Is it the > case that you have run out of inputs and want to share an input > between probe and limit switches? > This could be done with some logic in HAL, using the "and2" HAL > component to direct the input pin to the required logical destination.
I am doing that in my lathes hal file, but its now surplus as I have installed home switches now. I need to clean that up, although it does fill a purpose of zeroing X on the end of the stickout, and thats been quite handy. > I thought that this could be done using the new motion.motion-type pin > to discriminate between probing and anything else, but I an now not so > sure, as the commit description: > http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=a532de00059a4b > 8302382c8645b77a9c25cd0db2 Doesn't entirely agree with the docs: > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/motion.9.html 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
