Hi Guys,
I have just received my Sable 2015, it looks very well built but the tiny bit of documentation is in Chinglish, as some of you may no know it comes with a connector for the limit switches and ESTOP but no switches or even a suggestion as to where to put them.
I have setup EMC2 so that the 3 pins are "* Limit & Home".
I always imagined that you would simply click a button and the machine would home itself.
I bought 3 small microswitches with levers and soldered them up, when i changed the EMC config from "Both Limits *" to "* Limit & Home" a button apeared "Home All Axis" when i clicked it the Z axis started moving painfully slowly, i imagine as slow as it was able, i understand that once you were near the limit you'd want it to go super slow to make it accurate but surely there is a more sophisticated way of homing than manually jogging the axis nearly there and then clicking home all?
Also what is the accepted method of achieving consistent drill depth, one thing i haven't been able to figure out is how you set the depth, do you just carefully jog the Z axis down so it is touching the work piece and home it?
All very exciting as its my first day using a CNC machine, not got all that far though, spent half the day looking for a propper ESTOP switch as i could see the importance of been able to just hit a button next to the machine just before the controller tells the machine to rip its self to bits.. :drowning:
Thanks!
D.