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At least at first glance, the hal/ini files seem OK

A halscope plot of Z position and home switch state
when homing would be helpful  for debugging.

(Perhaps triggered by the home switch state)

 

For what its worth i have been just using ssh and its been fine for most of what I have needed.

maybe ill revisit this at some point but for right now its not a priority.

Thank you all for your help, we can close this one out, not sure what to do for that.

Can i check if its, "controlling the step motor drive enable(s)"? in Halshow?

I agree that it seems like it would be a wiring issue especially considering that the driver works independently. The only evidence i have to the contrary is that i run a continuity check on the two A leads and the two B leads (at the driver on the wires coming from the motor) and I get expected behavior - > beeps when i touch the first two and the last two together nothing more. Should i just replace that wire anyway?

I was unclear, I meant how to increase the font size in those menus.

Hi Friends,

 I am pulling my hair out with the Z portion of the homing sequence and could use some help. Currently i have my limit switch as the 'max-limit' for the Z axis. Prior to pressing Home All i am able to Jog the z axis and it works as expected (- is down, is up). 0 is max and -4 is min (this might be the root of my headache)When i press home all, it searches up and makes contact, backs off, and seems to continue through the switch in the positive direction. Per the homing configuration (linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-homing.html ) this shouldn't be happening because my search and latch vel are the same sign.

I should expect it to:
1- search up in the positive direction
2- make contact with the switch
3- back off in the negative direction
4- do the final touch of the switch at latch vel in the positive direction
5- the proceed down in the negative direction to the home location.

Instead what is happening is:
1- search up in the positive direction
2- make contact with the switch
3- unsure if its even backing off
4- goes in the positive direction past the limit switch and would crash the axis 

note in these ini/hal the home offset is set to 0 but it had been at -0.5 with the same behavior.     

Unless LinuxCNC is controlling the step motor drive enable(s)
(and there is no evidence of this in the hal file),
all motors should all have holding torque when the drives
are powered. Seems more like a drive fault or wiring issue.