dave wrote: > In my simplistic way I've always thought that homing a gantry by > bringing both sides up against a hard stop, manually if necessary, > then enable the servos and set zero or maybe reverse the sequence and > set zero first. Probably less than ideal but might work. > Yes, this is great for steppers, but can blow fuses, jump pinion teeth and otherwise not a great idea with servos. Also, it needs to stay synched ALL THE WAY to the home position. This is going to be a commercial production machine, so manual homing is probably not the best.
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