On Wednesday 24 June 2020 09:41:09 andy pugh wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 14:25, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > Even that would be helpfull when bringing up a new machine. But it
> > would not be fun to go thru the birds nest of a 7i90HD
>
> I was more thinking of it as a way to document what you already have
> during the build so you can find what colour wire goes to where from
> which terminal block a few years down the line.

Describing my situation. But what would also be very helpful is a 
translation from a stepgen.0.step or dir to the corresponding gpio in 
case a signal needs inverted. That may jump around with the firmware 
installed, and I couldn't recall which is installed 4+ years later with 
a gun to my head.

Now I have a new status signal to monitor, which I assume is a logic zero 
(closure to ground) at the drivers output when the driver is tripped.  I 
ran it into the chuck yesterday, which tripped it of with zero 
theatrics, and a power cycle which I can do with the F2 key, resets it. 
I am gradually converting all my machines so the motor power is removed 
if F2 is off.  And of course un-homing them at the same time.  Seems 
like I should do something creative with it, but not sure what other 
than a red/green pyvcp led tally. I's quite a few of those already...

Ideas considered.

Thanks Andy

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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