Ready Steady Eddy

[JAZZCNC]

Homing in motion controllers is done differently than with the parallel port, so you may be correct with the SS. I know it's taken several years for Greg to get slaved homing to work correctly with the SS.

Going back a little here to homing but was looking thru Mach manual today and noticed this in the Homing/limits section.

"When a Reference operation is performed, then the axes will run together until the final part of referencing, which
is moving just off the Home switches. Here they will move so that each stops the same distance off its
own switch. Referencing will therefore correct any racking (i.e. out of squareness) of the gantry, which
might have occurred when the machine was switched off or because of lost steps."

So they do a mixture of both really has they are slaved upto point it's backing OFF the Switch.!! Tonight Just checked on machine that is using PLCM-E3 and it works just like this. . . . . . Just thought this might clear any confussion.

[EddyCurrent]

So after that bit of RTFM, here's how I would set up the homing switches;

Assuming 2 home switches used on X

1. One switch can be mounted in a fixed position while the other switch needs to be + and - adjustable in the X direction.
2. Using some form of measuring equipment e.g. large T square, set both switches square to the X axis.
3. Carry out a homing operation of the machine then using the same measuring apparatus as in step 2. check squareness of the gantry to X axis
4. If the gantry is not square then move the adjustable home switch by the required amount and in the required direction.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the gantry is square to the X axis.

[Clive S]

Eddy Spot on, simples, can't just remember if the slave needs to be the adjustable one. I drilled some holes down the x and y then put dowels in then the square against the dowels. then readjusted the switch and tried again. ..Clive