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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