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I generally keep signal & power separate (I include the wires for the stepper coils power).

Even then unknown I don't expect things to get better with the next administrations.

You can thank the UK gumbernment and my own pseudo socialist gumbernment. It's embarrassing to be an Aussie at the moment and we have 3 more years of the fools.

Unserstood, thank you

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of wiring up my first CNC machine and just spent the day finishing up the wiring from my closed-loop stepper motors to the drive, and was wondering if I had made a big blunder. Since the encoder needs 6 wires for EB-, EB+, EA-, EA+, VCC and GND and the stepper power needs 4 more for A+, A-, B+ and B-, I used a single 10-core shielded cable from the drive to the stepper. Is this ok, or will it cause problems, and should I have used a 4-core and a 6-core cables instead? I don't have much of an electrical background, so I am really unsure about this. Thanks for your help

Gautham

Hi Everyone

I am in the process of wiring up my first CNC 5-axis machine and I wanted to know if I can use this Rotary Encoder  to home the A-axis and if so how would I wire it up. From the research I have done, my understanding is that it can be done but it involves some editing of VHD files that I didn't really understand since I am new to LinuxCNC. Thanks for the help

Gautham