Re: Sanity check on home switches

Hi Jeff,

check the software and see if it dies on an end switch. some require
you to manually clear the error before it can run.

ditto for limit switches that kill power. that means that although
you can go home again, you can can only walk away.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "washcomp" <jeff@w...> wrote:
> I am in the final stages of building the control wiring for my
> Bridgeport milling machine. I am attaching limit switches, some of
> which will be doing double duty as home switches.
>
> I am of the assumption that the home (zero) of the X axis should be
> the left hand limit switch (table all the way to the right), the
home
> of the Y axis should be the rear limit switch (table all the way
> towards the column of the mill), and the home of the Z axis should
be
> when the spindle is all the way up.
>
> Please let me know if I've got this right (or tell me the error of
my
> ways).
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Jeff