On Saturday 12 July 2014 02:16:05 Philipp Burch did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi Gene! > > On 12.07.2014 04:12, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... > > And they stop (no errors reported) for what should be a continuous > > jog after 3 or 5 seconds, needing a release and fresh push on the > > arrow keys. > > ... > > I know this effect, it happens when the machine is not homed. When you > jog in the unhomed state, the continuous jogging stops after travelling > the maximum distance as given by the min/max limits in the ini file. > Say, you have your axis (joint, actually) set to minimum 0mm and > maximum 300mm, then jogging will stop after travelling 300mm in one > run. You can then press the key again to get some new 300mm of travel. > If your scale is incorrect, this can easily generate the effect you > described, as the machine then "thinks" that it's travelled the whole > distance, while the physical distance may be much shorter. > > Best regards, > Philipp
I believe you just explained it. And I can't home using the present BOB wiring, home switches are on no pin because I'll have to edit that into the .hal file which I have not done yet. PncConf does not know about home switches yet, or at least I've not found them in the menu's. 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> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
