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Great spindles. I have been running one for about 6 years. 80mm, 30k 2.2kw version. 2 pole.

I then ordered a 4 pole, 24k spindle to have lower torque on another machine. Lots of guys were running these.

That's what is it. I'm running a slaved Y, auto pairing, auto squaring. 55 seconds. 500mm/min home rate.

I have my Parameter #3 set to 0.

I'll check my settings tonight and report back. I can tell you now, the term master tool means nothing, so you may as well forget about it.

With the Z at Home position, I then go into the offset library and hit Z Ref. Then F10. (You only have to do this once.) Now the Z Reference is the Top of Z/Z ...

Thanks. I changed course a bit and decided NOT to use the probe as the master tool. I went back and used a long tool for the master tool, recorded the height of the master then measured the height of the probe (tool #100) and the 1/4" endmill (tool #4). Ran the test g-code and all went perfectly ...

You see that's the thing. With the probe you do not need a master tool.

Z REF is the Z Home.

Then once you hit F10, and save and make the Z Ref = Z Home. Then you can just measure tools. Measure the Probe, then measure the tool#4.

I assume you are using the regular centroid probing method ...

Why not post a quick video. What you are trying to do is something that most of us do every single day. So you are just not setting things up correctly.

If the message is "407 ... limit tripped" then the problem relates to the hard-wired limit switches.

If the message were "907 ... travel exceeded", then it would relate to software travel limits or setups.

You are looking for a problem with the hard-wired limit switches.

First you should look ...

For your type of mill and if Z-home is precise, I set Parameter #3 = 6
This uses Z-home as Z Reference
With this setup you can change the stylus on the probe, or use different probes, and only have to measure the new Probe offset.
Since my TTO is softer than the KP3, I use a solid block with the ...