Quick Tip: IF you have Home/Limit Switches, here is an example and description on setting them up

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Re: Quick Tip: IF you have Home/Limit Switches, here is an example and description on setting them up

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Re: Quick Tip: IF you have Home/Limit Switches, here is an example and description on setting them up

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Quick question on this subject....

I don't have a limit switch on Z yet, I have been just jogging Z to it's highest point and THEN I activate the homing sequence which in LinuxCNC would automatically set Z to Zero (0). Is that the same here for Acorn?

Cheers
Bruce
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Re: Quick Tip: IF you have Home/Limit Switches, here is an example and description on setting them up

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Racedirector wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:36 am Quick question on this subject....

I don't have a limit switch on Z yet, I have been just jogging Z to it's highest point and THEN I activate the homing sequence which in LinuxCNC would automatically set Z to Zero (0). Is that the same here for Acorn?

Cheers
Bruce
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Re: Quick Tip: IF you have Home/Limit Switches, here is an example and description on setting them up

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Thanks Garry

Plans are afoot to get a proxy onto the Z, I need to sort out proper dust collection first and that has to wait until I move into my new house and get my large shed built :)

Cheers
Bruce
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