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Default The mill has homing switches on all axes

On 2010-07-20, rangerssuck wrote:
On Jul 20, 12:23?am, Ignoramus21191 ignoramus21...@NOSPAM.
21191.invalid wrote:
I wired all limit switches and verified behavior of every limit switch
and every estop button.

Now both estop buttons work. Also all five limit switches work.

I have also discovered something nice: the mill actually has separate
home switches on all axis.

However, the schematic that I have, has no reference to those, it may
be an extra option on my mill that is not reflected in standard
schematic.

I understand that with homing switches, my mill could very rapidly home
itself in all three dimensions at once. Which is a plus. At the same
time, it is not an absolute necessity.

i


After all this trouble to "do things right," why in the world WOULDN'T
you want to hook them up?


I would, but may be not right away.

Even finding out what are the wire numbers is a pain.

For some reason, at least one of them (Z axis), the only one I looked
at, has three wires.

i