Trouble with LinuxCNC and Gantry stepper motor setup.

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1 year 3 months ago #331838 by Revinvoss
So which mesa board will I need as the one i have is image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/sick.png

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1 year 3 months ago #331840 by PCW
I thought you had a parallel port setup ( using stepconf to create configurations )

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1 year 3 months ago #331842 by Revinvoss
I do. I was able to get the Z stepper working, as it had a low voltage issue and was only able to jog in the up direction when I clicked on the jog arrows in config wizard. was also able to find the gantry config in the config setup when I opened Linuxcnc app. I am now needing to locate a helpful tutorial on Homing the joints. Have not found any yet. Can not do anything until this is done.
 

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1 year 3 months ago #331874 by PCW
There is the LinuxCNC homing documentation:

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini-homing.html

There are also some you tube videos around
that will show up if you google "linuxcnc homing tutorial"
 
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1 year 3 months ago #331900 by jimmyrig
Ahhh,

When you say run y axis and a axis in tandem do you mean you have a 4th rotary axis (for cutting pipe) or just have 2 motors on the gantry that you need to move together?

For the first see my comment above......
For the second

Make a new config, select your "a axis" as tandem Y.

You will need homing switches on each of the 2 y axis so the joints can square themselves before becoming an axis. Once they are homed both will move at the same time and jog like normal.

No gcode changes for this one.
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1 year 3 months ago #332182 by Revinvoss
So, I will need to install physical limit switches to the table for this homing setup?
Is there a tutorial and were for wiring limit switches correctly to the control board ST-V3. As I do not have any switches install at this time. It never needed them when I had the table setup for Plasma cutting. Now I have changed to Router it seems that this is an issue.

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