Limit, Home and E Stop Switches
The CNC machine is finished. DC PS and control box put together.
Now I want to add the Limit Switches, Home and E Stop.
Where do these connect to the system?
Am using Xylotex XS-3525/8s-1 Controllers
Mach 3 Software
ECM Parallel breakout board.
Thanks
Hager
Better use of the three limit switches
Since I only have three limit switch connections on the EMC breakout board, how would it be if I were to configure the three connections in the following manner? This would free up the Home connection.
Connection one:
The two switches on the X Axis and the two switches on the Y Axis all in series.
Connection two:
Connect two Z Axis switches in series.
Connection three:
Use the third connection for the Home switch.
Would this configuration work with Mach3? Or would it be confused?
I do not understand the function of the “Home” switch. And how is it used?
Thanks
Hager
How Many Switches are Needed
Quote:
Originally Posted by
GaryCorlew
Home is where all the axes of your machine would be at 0, Most people use their home switches as limit switches, so you could have just three.
Thanks Gary,
Still foggy let me try this again.
"Home is where all the axes of your machine would be at 0" OK I understand this part.
"Most people use their home switches as limit switches, so you could have just three" Let me spell this out and see if I am getting it, don’t think I understand.
Don’t understand “just three” in your statement. Wouldn’t I need two switches on the X Axis (one at each end of the travel) wired separately back to the board and I would define one of them as Home using Mach 3. This would be done also for both the Y and Z axis’s. So I would need six independently wired switches, in this example. Or am I not understanding the number of limit switches I need?
My breakout board only supports three switches. So I don’t have the option to use six limit switches. So am I up the creek with this limitation?
Thanks
Hager
Oh, "Stops" to locate the part.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ger21
Attached to the cutting area, like a fence. On our commercial router, it has steel pins that pop up to locate the part, and drop down when the part is run. You could rout holes in your table to accept pins to locate the part. Mount the part to the table, and remove the pins. Make more sense? Or, you can just route reference lines into the table top to locate your machines 0,0.
Oh, "Stops" to locate the part. I thought you were talking about stops to stop the cutter travle, we had been talking about physical limit and home switches limiting travle of the router, did not realise you had focused on part location.
Now I understand. Yes I do understand you want to fixture the piece to be cut in a known location otherwise you would not hit your target.
This is the next step after getting the limit and homing switches set up.
Thanks Gerry.