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 -- "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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
