Limit switches NC, g38.2 probing stopped working

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  • August 18, 2014 at 12:53 am #6631
    jon
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    I’ve successfully transitioned my massively modified shapeoko 2 over to a Tinyg controller. So far I’ve really loved the combo. I’ve had some issues with TGFX, but the controller seems to run perfectly. I originally had my limit switches set up in NO mode, and as such my touch plate connected to A min worked great for running g38.2 probe cycles to set the work coordinate z zero for the current tool.

    I changed the switches over to NC mode for better noise isolation, though, and now running a g38.2 command doesn’t even get the z axis moving. I read somewhere that the g38.2 command works regardless of whether the limit switches are in NC or NO mode, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for me.

    Thoughts?

    August 18, 2014 at 7:19 am #6632
    alden
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    I think you have to temporarily change over to NO for G38.2. This should probably be logged as an issue on github. Do you remember where you read that NO and NC are OK? I dpn’t recall this, and if it;s out there I’d like to correct it. — Thanks.

    August 18, 2014 at 12:34 pm #6641
    jon
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    Thanks for the quick reply. Just to clarify, are you suggesting I change the Tinyg settings to NO, or do I need to rewire the switches also?

    I read about the NO vs. NC in this forum post:

    G28.2 command to auto-level a PCB?

    Regarding the issue on github, would you like me to log that?

    August 19, 2014 at 8:52 am #6646
    alden
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    Thanks. The issue is on Github here:

    https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG/issues/99

    I’ve continued the discussion there.

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