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Chris,

Yes, your flag arrangement is precisely what I normally do with limit sensors... but I've got a CNC lathe and banging out 18 round pins was a quick solution.

The unintended consequences didn't show up until well after I'd built everything.  Obviously, the square edge and flat surface, presented across the sensor field, is the way to go.

Regarding my earlier comments... I'm sure you'll put together an implementation guide, and including a giant warning about COUNTS mode and open-loop steppers would certainly go a long way to helping users avoid a crash.

Something else to jot down for your guide and modular ATC config: LCNC's (somewhat) recent addition of motion.misc-error.NN HAL component.

Since stepper/servo drives are not axes, the misc-error pins are exactly the right arrangement to permit an ATC drive motor error to trigger an estop event just like a stalled axis motor - especially in COUNTS mode where there's no feedback between the ATC's true position and LCNC.

 

I started to actually do some work but it was short lived but when Christmas and new years gets here i will have a lot more time to build things. But as of now i have a gantry beam and 1500mm rail to mount on it and all the bits to build the Z axis so it a start my lead screw for my Z needs to be cut down to fit the build. 4 start screws are limited in choices for some reason.

but everything is built around 3 inch square aluminum tubing. came across a drop of this for the gantry beam as well. i'm using 12 mm round rails for my Z. also decided to change some things on my floating head concept. after looking at it for a while i seen a better and easier way to do it  

   

I've looked into the software's options, and an option to switch enable polarity is not listed anywhere. I'll try to switch position on the Switch 5 and keep you posted

What if you ran the updates sequentially from ver2.0, i know Tormach state that you don't need to but my logical thinking is if they up dated the code and firmware as they progressed then possibly by going straight to ver 2.10 could miss out some important upgrades. Has Tormach released a newer USB master key since ver 2.0. Since ver 2.6 ? they have changed their control boards to include a programmable logic device and not use the mesa version. That looks to me where the changes in firmware have taken place but that then begs the question if you had an older 1100 3 machine do the update scan for the mesa card/version and load the appropriate upgrade to the firmware so if you has say the plasma table with the newer control board the update can figure out the difference and load the option that closer matches the machine.

Then it seems to work. Good luck with the steppers.

I have not been able to test it yet, but with a multimeter I have verified that when I change the direction of a motor the DIR pin changes from 0 to 5 volts.

Hi, changed my Config. I get an error with the path from this. But i attached a screenshoot with my folder. 

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: 'user_tabs/

USER_TABS_PATH = user_tabs/             # REQUIRED Setting for Probe Basic
USER_BUTTONS_PATH = user_buttons/       # REQUIRED Setting for Probe Basic