Another question I have now that I'm getting close to hooking up the motors and electronics. The reason I'm asking about home switches is because someone told me you need them to use the soft limits feature in Mach3.
I assume Home switches are the same type of switch as a limit switch(a little black box with a plunger usually depressed by a flat metal arm with or without a roller on the end) My question is, if I'm using 8 limit switches(2 per axis on a four axis system) Do I need seperate home switches?
Do I add more switches in addition to the limit switches? Can I use the same switches for home & limits? Do I only put home switches at one end of each axis where I want the machine to zero out?
Can someone please explain what, where and how many switches I will need in a typical setup? I know where to put the limit switches on each axis but I dont know how & where to incorporate the home switches. |