Hey guys I need some insight. I thought I was going to be ok without setting up homing but it looks like its going to come in handy. I'm using an arduino with cnc shield, UGS with grbl v1.1 I've tried setting it up before but all it does it hit my limit switch and sets the limit alarm. My limit switches work, I have $22=1 (Homing cycle, boolean) Any one have a solution?
What's your homing switch pull-off distance set to? Is it enough to actually clear the switch? ($27).
No it wasn't, I never changed it from default 1mm. Thank you that was it! and after rearranging the limits on the correct axis it working correctly. It seems to home each limit switch twice does that sound correct? It hits the switch then goes to pull-off distance then slowly hits it again followed by the pull off.
That's exactly what it should do. The idea is that you can "search" for the switch at a higher feed rate (setting $25, great when you need to travel +1000mm like I do), then once it finds it, it will actually "locate" the switch at a lower feed rate (setting $24). Locating at a lower feed rate improves accuracy.
i have 1000mm/min for $25 and 100mm/min for $24. I also have $26 set to 250ms (might as well check that while you are at it) Edit: I have been thinking of cranking up $25. But I havent done it yet.