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It is turning non-stop because it is looking for INP30 to change. If your home switch is wired to INP7 (and you have confirmed that the dot for INP7 changes color when you trip the home switch), then you should enter "7", not "30" for the minus and/or plus home input numbers for ...

When i do M6 it waits for INP32 at some point

That would usually happen when you have ATC indicated (Parameter 6 = 1), but you have no custom M6 macro file.

Unless something has changed that I am not aware of, "peck" tapping is simply a series of full G84 tapping cycles, with successively greater Z depths. After each "peck" cycle, Z would return to the R plane above the surface. Then the control would wait for the index pulse to come...

The more common design is to put a half-round collar or disc on the gear motor shaft, so it turns with the Geneva cam (one revolution per tool position). Then install the proximity sensor to detect that half-round. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIvKYxLQPnc However, I recommend ...

Keith: did something change in the rigid tapping cycle? It used to be, the cycle would wait for the index pulse, then begin feeding Z down in proportion to the A/B counts. Once it had started feeding down, there used to be no dependence whatsoever on the index pulse. In the current software, what is...

"Home Jog" was added fairly recently (maybe CNC12 5.20?). All previous versions use the Slow Jog rate for homing. If you always do a "Park" before powering off, then it should not take very long to find home, even at 360 deg/min. If you want to speed up homing, even in the case w...

Correction: it was movement toward the X+ limit (the preferred homing direction) that was prevented when the servo motor hit the back of the bed. The workaround for now is to home to the X- switch (cross-slide toward the back of the machine), then use software limits to prevent it going too far forw...

You may want to take a look at motor case length and clearance, for the X axis motor. Usually on a Hardinge, the X axis motor is tucked down and inside on the back of the carriage, and it moves with the cross-slide. If the motor is much longer than the original Hardinge motors, then it will hit the ...

Also make sure that the c:\cncm\extra-report-files folder is empty. DO NOT try to save a report there.

The motor that turns the Geneva cam would not need to be an axis motor, assigned to one of your axis outputs, and controlled with G code moves. Instead, it would simply be a reversible open-loop motor, with no encoder position feedback, turned on and off with relays out of the PLC. There is a big ar...