Gantry setup with two motors but home switches only on one joint

I have been searching and reading quite a bit, but I am still unsure how to achieve what I want. The main reason that there are too many options

My setup:
Gantry Style Machine with two motors on y axis. *The two motors are synchronized via a timing belt*

Since my machine has a timing belt I think homing both Joints doesn't make any sense. I'd prefer to have limit/homing switches on only one joint of the Y axis.

Can I/ should I use the gantry module? I understood to have limit switches on any of the joints. Or should I link the enable, dir and pulse inputs of the first motor to the second motor in the HAL using the net command? Is anybody willing to share a HAL config for such setup?

I already roasted 2 motor drivers, hence I am pretty conservative/ overly cautios .

Thanks in advance,

Louis

One died because of a short in the motor cable, one since the connector was wired for the TB6600 and I connected it to a brandnew DM542 (36V connected to a drive Output). Better don't have a beer when wiring ;-/

I have a 36V China power supply, Nema 23 and a mix of DM542A and TB6600 (to be changed to DM542 when everything is up and running)

*Back to Topic:*
I upgraded to 2.8 and not sure that I understood how to set things up:

In the Ini file there is a definition of the axis as well as a joint definition. Since my Y- Axis has two drives there should be a second joint be defined. What should the numbering of the joint be?

Like this ?:
Or should I preferably use stepconf, set up a XYZA configuration and change the "soft-wiring".

What would be your preference?
- wire two controllers to one output (maybe more reliable but maybe have electrical problems like too low resistance)
- connect in HAL (Maybe lost sync between due to realtime Problems?)

a gantry shoudt be homes to both sides otherwise it does not give you a benefit of the gantry
so get a second switch there

if you want to leve it the way just direct the signaö of moving to the second driver stage thats all

Sorry, sadly I don't get your point yet. The advantage of a gantry to my undestanding is that you have no torque applied to the linear rails, only forces. I do not see the advantage in rectifying your gantry over and over. I prefer to rectify once and have a hard synchronization via the belt. Or do you think the belt will be less accurate than having another home switch? That would be a valid explanation to myself.

1. Would you then suggest to wire it in series with the other y-axis Limit switches? (no Inputs left anymore)
2. How dou you home both without bending the gantry whenever homing is done?
3. Would you then use the gantry module? Would you mind posting an example hal and ini or a link?

thanks for the PS hint. I am using the powersupply delivered together with the motors and the drivers by Longs Motors, hence I thought the drivers should be capable of running at those voltages.