I am using 2.8-something and do not have to home axis before using. Can't figure out how I make it happen right now.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:05:01 -0400 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all; > > Not sure but ISTR seeing a 2.8-pre in the lcnc headbar. > > But, while this BoB seems to have excellent timeing as I can see the step > pulse have 10ns rise & fall times, I am unable to put the spindle > circuit live for a where the heck is it on this card test. > > I have put # in front of all the keywords that start with HOME in > the .ini file, and put in a NO_FORCE_HOMING like it says in the docs in > the only two axis's a lathe normally, but I still cannot run this > short .ngc program. I think the home is being being killed/nullified by > the need to hit escape to stop the forever load scan. With no machine to > activate home switches, and no encoder either, the safety features get > in the way of tracing signals. > % > ( to find the spindle on this breakout interface) > ( need to find 4 signals, pwm, enable, reverse, and an enable for the > vfd) > s1000 > o10 WHILE [1] > m3 > g4 p.1 > m4 > g4 p.1 > m5 > g4 p.2 > o10 endwhile > m2 > % > > Is that the problem? Easily fixed I think, once I sat down and the back > pain has eased enough to think. So I will try running 100,000 times > while I poke around with a scope probe. OTOH, an estop shutdown on TLM > does not unhome it. Nor does an esc stop on any of the machines here. > > Needless to say, the 5i25 doesn't even come close to using the same pins > as a Mach install does. Finding z was easy, its on the pin set labeled > for a B axis, and x is on the group for the Y axis. I did find the > spindle's pwm signal but I'll be if I can find the spindle enables and > brakes. Not sure why, but the B group is the only one whose led responds > as an "I'm running" tally although I've see a few blinks on other pin > groups as I was finding the mist and flood buttons. > > Anyway, clues welcomed. > > Thanks all. > > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
