On Thursday 12 November 2015 12:02:27 Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings, I hope Peter is about;
>
> I have smashed up the brass plate I use for tool length sensing, twice
> today, because the 5i25.0.gpio.003_in is not seeing a probe contact.
>
> Worse yet, it seems to be intermittent, working well after the first
> such incident.  Changed tools, and went to calibrate the TLO for these
> new Chinese TTS tool holders, and smashed it again while descending at
> .7"/minute.
>
> Checking with a DVM, the probe line has about 3.3 volts on it, and it
> goes to zero on the DVM when even a gentle contact is made, but  its
> not stopping the machine, and a halmeter is registering FALSE full
> time.
>
> Checking the status in showconfig, it (gpio.003) is an input.  And I
> do not believe I have a separate pullup on the line, that card is
> AFAIK, doing that 3.3 volts.  Any pullups I would have installed would
> have been to the 5 volt rail.
>
> I haven't rebooted the machine yet but will before I head out to go
> have a chat with my sawbones here in about an hour.
>
> In the meantime, if you've any suggestions, I am all eyeballs to read
> them when I get back. :)
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

A hot reboot made no difference.  I'll try a Powedown Reset next.  And I 
do still have a spare card I haven't managed to install in the toy mill, 
yet...

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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