Greetings; Due to backing out for a home some swarf or something got between the switch and the front of the crossfeed, lifting the L bracket holding the home switch hard enough to pop the superglue holding it to the apron face. So the next time I homed it, it came back but never tripped the switch crashing the x nut, w/o damage, about 50 thou farther out. I'd like to set my x home about .1" in from the home switch closure, with the dro showing around +4.5 or +5.0.
As that switch is a good 5 something inches from the center line of the lathe, I would like the initial home to be about 5" positive on the dro. So assumeing the final switch closure is equ to 5.250" what would be example values for HOME? and HOME_OFFSET? My experiments haven't been successfull, causing end of travel crashes, and I'd druther not break the bracket off again. Secondary but s/b on the same page, are the soft limits. The docs say the soft limits are in machine units, eg inch for me. But what can I watch with a halmeter while jogging, to get the desired values to put in the ini file? They should not be sensitive to touch off's. Moving around done by the lincurve/offset will still be invisible, but thats 5 thou worst case. A statement that the final switch closure when doing the homing, sets this value to 0.00000, making these limits reference that 0.00000 switch closure would be nice if thats the case, but it doesn't appear to be. Clarification please. 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
