home switches?

[ljoe1969]

can i connect home switces to this board? if so how?

what about limit switches? can they be connected to this board?

etc...

[ger21]

There are some schematics on the Xylotex website showing how to wire up limit switches. The only problem is you might not have enough inputs. You might want to just add another parallel port, and make a seperate breakout board for home and limit switches. It wouldn't be any more difficult than wiring them into the Xylotex.

Gerry

[ljoe1969]

i don't know how to read the electrical schematics that come with the board.

could you tell me what wire goes where?

[buscht]

Check out this site and read through the old postings. They talk about hooking up the home and input switches and various ways to do it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Xylotex/files/

[Sanghera1]

For a touch probe, would you want a Parallel or Series Home Switch?? Also, could someone help me out that might have some expierience with making a home switch, what parts, do you have to make a PCB? I'm not that electronics savy.
Thanks.

[ger21]

A touch probe has nothing to do with a Home switch. A home switch is just a limit switch to reset you're machine. You can use $3 Radio Shack switches for home and limit switches.

[Sanghera1]

But, I thought that I read in another website about a Home Built Touch Probe, and that you can hook it up through the Home Switch port, I guess where the wires go for the home switch. So where do the wires normally go??
Thanks.

[Sanghera1]

He wrote something like this : "The probe was connected to one of the home switch inputs on my driver board and this was configured as the probe input"
on this website : http://www.indoor.flyer.co.uk/probe.htm

On the Xylotex board, are there any other inputs that can be configured so that the software reads it as a probe?
Thanks.

[ger21]

The Xylotex has connectors which gives you access to the unused pins of the parallel port. You can use these pins for anything you want. Home or limit switches, relays, probe. But you have to do the wiring yourself. The Xylotex just gives you a place to connect to the parallel port pins. If you're using TurboCNC, for example, you just tell the software which pins you're using for whatever you have.

All he's saying is that his driver had a terminal labeled for Home switches. That terminal was just a connection to a pin from the parallel port. He used that for his probe, instead of using a home switch.

[Sanghera1]

Doh!!!! I get it know, sorry about the confusion there, thanks for helping me out guys. That last post really cleared some things up. So, how many of these free inputs are there on the Xylotex board? Can more be added?
Thanks.

[ger21]

Off hand I'm not sure. Something around 4 or 5 I think. You can always use a second parallel port to hook up accesories, limit switches, probes, relays etc.

[Sanghera1]

So, would anybody be able to help me out here? Well, I guess first of all, are Home/limit switches manual switches that you flick to make the motors move to the desired starting point?? And also, I'm not too good with schematics and such, and I was wondering if someone could help me so that I can build one. What parts I need. Do I need to make a PCB?
Thank you all very much for the help.
I really appreciate it.