LinuxCNC + Mesa 7i92TF + Gecko G540. Docs are useless. Help, Please!

Thanks. I’ll order the switches.

Having a blast is not my goal here. I need a working tool.

To be clear, when I set up the limit switches the software will treat the two Y motors as one? Currently they are being treated as separate axes, which makes it impossible to move the gantry to a home position.

Thank you for the link.

I set up the software limits and homes. I assumed the hardware limits wouldn’t be necessary to get it running.

What I don’t understand at this point is how I get the gantry, which is currently at the midway point of the machine, 24” from the desired home location, jogged to the home location, in this software, so I *can* home it. I don’t see how wiring in the physical switches allows me to do that.

Hopefully the docs will get me there. Thanks.

Properly set up(motor directions especially), the homing will move both gantry axes (Y1 & Y2) until they hit their respective home switch).  Here is a configuration from my SO5 Pro gantry router I've been using for over a year.

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Route 66 Scott wrote:

Thanks. I’ll order the switches.

Having a blast is not my goal here. I need a working tool.

To be clear, when I set up the limit switches the software will treat the two Y motors as one? Currently they are being treated as separate axes, which makes it impossible to move the gantry to a home position.

Yes if you set up the home_sequence correctly. Read the link again another 3 times,,,,