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Hey Marty I will do my best to explain as straight as I can. I have a slave Y axis that is connected in a dasiy chain (i am going to use a 4th axis rotary later on). Take no regard of my Z and X home as it is fine and working. Now i have 3 relays (optocouplers) connected to the 3 outputs; namely 3,4...

Hey Keith and Marty

Attached is the report.

Many thanks! I hope to be up and running after the weekend. I will post photos of my build soon.

I have a slave axis that im daisy chaining to keep a 4th rotary axis. Now my problem is squaring the gantry and im trying to acheive it by using two prox switches. I connected opto couplers to the outputs to control which motor will move (either main or slave or both) so i can home them individually...

Hi Keith! I will post my hom file tomorrow as it is in the shop. Also, will try and post a report when i figure out to to generate one. Anyway, in a nutshell I placed M94/3 to make it active also output 4 and 5. Also within the hom file i used M95 when im not using it anymore. Checking the i/o map t...

Hey guys, Im back working on my CNC. On my hom file i am using 3 outputs to close/open relays (optocouplers really) for my switches. If i toggle on/off manually via alt+i (i/o map screen) it works. The motors moves/disables how i planned it to be. Now when i incorporate the Mcodes “M94/3/4/5 etc” an...

Nope, i havnt gotten it to work yet. I will be doing the external connections via relay only when and if i cant get it to work with the original connections.

Any thoughts on how to make the software to dwell until full power up of spindle before executing the movement?

Hi Gary

Yes, i have connected the estopok to an input and yes, i also connected the forward to an output.

Thanks for your input Jason.
If all else fails i think i might as well use one of the outputs relay to to open the connection from foward to the output pin.
This would also work right?

Hey guys! My build is finally almost done (after 2 months).... Im using a huanyang vfd with the connections provided by the schematics minus the reverse (is there a need to really use the reverse feature? Iv tried it once but it made my ER collet nut loose and i dont know what bit/mills to use with ...

As suggested by Gary.
Here is a version 2 of the file.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Change the txt extension to .hom

Thanks guys.

I have no doubt that CNC12 is much more superior.
I just have to get used to the interface and the operations.
I'm still scratching my head on how to go about with the settings and all especially on the coding.

I'm still quite new in the CNC world and hope to learn more.

Cheers!