Ahh, so I do use limit switches and a homing routine. So it’s homing to the same position (plus or minus a few thousandths or so).
> On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > On 07/21/2020 04:20 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 10:18, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> We are not looking for noise, we are looking for spurious encoder count >>> resets. >> But, thinking further, even if there _is_ noise on the index line, the >> encoder counter should ignore it. It ignores all the _real_ indexes >> unless index-enable is set true in HAL. >> > Yes, the only thing I can think of is he's hitting his soft limits. Over > time, starting and stopping LinuxCNC, > without homing, the machine limits will drift. If you have rational limits > in the .ini file, you will eventually reach the end of them and have really > strange behavior. it can be fixed by homing in a safe position, > but best to put in home switches and actually home the machine to a > repeatable position every time. > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
