On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 at 00:32, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Z axis is more interesting. Before homing I imagine the tail stock > has to be loosened and moved all the way to the right as far away from the > headstock to ensure finding a home switch. > My lathe uses a position.txt file hack and single-turn absolute resolvers to avoid needing to home (generally) But when it needs to home the home sensor is with the saddle all the way to the right. If I was doing it again I would have put a "tailstock sensor" in the saddle as an extra limit switch. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
