First, turning off the home inputs in Mach3 works. However the buttons in the 1024 lset have the wrong OEM codes assigned to the home buttons. I was able to kludge a workaround while I developed a more elegant solution.
My new question has to do with quadrature encoding.
My home brew spindle encoder has a few shortcomings.
I use a pair of Opti Interrupters on the spindle. The wave form is reasonably crisp as I have shaped it with a Schmidt trigger.
But the duty cycle is a bit of an issue as is the offset between the two signals.
The duty cycle of each wave form is in the 60 % range.
But the big potential issue is the offset. The two wave forms are more like 120 degrees offset instead of 180.
My objective is single point threading and possibly rigid tapping.
Any thoughts? Do I need to rework quadrature? And if so, which is more important, duty cycle or offset?