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Jon Elson[_3_] Jon Elson[_3_] is offline
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Default Hokoed up a PC to the mill

Pete C. wrote:
Ignoramus15939 wrote:


If you get ambitious, think about adding decel switches to allow you to
home at rapid rate most of the way.

My mill does approximately 70 IPM right now, I think that it is slow
enough for homing, no?

EMC2 has a two-stage or 3-stage homing sequence. It runs at a high
speed toward the switch, reverses and then approaches the switch slower,
then can search for the index pulse from the encoder. So, as long as
the initial search is slow enough that the reversal doesn't overtax the
machine or run past the safe limit beyond the switch, you can make the
initial search as fast as you like. All 3 speeds can be set in the
..ini file.

Jon