Joining two motors

here it is i think

Aldenflorio wrote:

here it is i think

How have you wired the estop. Can you check with halshow to see if it toggles?

Can you jog the machine? You won't be able to jog it until it is homed. if not change for each axis

STEPLEN = 2500 to 5000
STEPSPACE = 2500 to 5000

I have the e-stop wired from the v+ to the e stop, then e-stop to Mesa board. It toggles. I’ll change what you said, though I don’t mind whether I can jog the axis before homing my trouble more is getting the machine to home

I figured some things out. Since my last post till now I’ve been too busy to devote much time to this, plus I was building a new electrical enclosure because all my electrical were too tight together. Nonetheless I have made some progress. There are some new questions now, but I’m close to being finished. Let me first explain what I did.

I was fooling around with things and realized I’m a idiot and as an idiot I had the e-stop wired wrong. That is why I wasn’t able to click anything. So once I fixed that then I was able to click “home all”. The motors moved I had some issues that I fixed then I had to change the direction of one of the motors and fixs some configurations etc. ultimately it “homes” now.

Here are my current issues.

1: it seems to have its positive and negative values wrong. When it goes to home it backs up from home and considers everything between it and the home it just hit as positive, everything behind it it considers negative. When really there’s like two inches between it and home, and the rest of the table is behind it.

2: the scale is odd. It will travel to the other end of the x axis which is about 5ft. But it only considers it to be a few inches on the display. I know this is probably an issue with the specifics for the gear but I’m not sure.

3: it will hit x min limit switch (which is also home) then stop moving and still allow me to jog the motor. but when i jog it to the other end where the x max limit switch is and it hits it then the whole machine stops. Not sure why

4: I do not currently have 2 limit switches for the z axis. I have one for the floating head but that’s it. How do I make it so it homes all the axis except for the z axis?

It’s homing in the right direction physically It just miss understands it on the display.

I’ll do that for the z axis thank you

When I edit the calibration menu nothing seems to save. I click save but when I reopen it or click refresh nothing has saved

Ok, thank you. I’ll change those things in a bit and let you know how it is

Ok so I did as you said and things are fixed. The z axis does what I want now, the machine homes properly, and it understands which direction it’s going, and it has proper scale.

Now I need to incorporate the floating head. How do I do that? When the limit switch is triggered on the floating head it says “Joint 3 on limit switch error” then it stops moving and doesn’t allow me to jog the motors

It give the same error message when it triggers the other limit switches that aren’t part of homing