Hi, I've been working on a laser engraver. Everything works fine. But when I added limit switches, then Y axis homing works but x-axis homing fails with the alarm being set immediately. My machine is setup with x and y limit switches set in left corner, that means both in -ve direction. I used LaserGrbl to flash the firmware with x-y homing to arduino. Attached my grbl configuration. Please advise. Cheers Ritu
Homing failure is almost always wiring related. Sometimes Grbl parameter related. Use the Troubleshooting tab in CONTROL to test the switches first If its all good, then recheck exactly (screenshots are best) which alarm comes up (there are several related to homing) to trace down which parameter it may relate to Ps: LaserGrbl is a relic. Grbl got laser mode in 2016 already with release of V1. 1: grbl/laser_mode.md at master · gnea/grbl - LaserGrbl was a thing more than half a decade ago when it didn't - use official Grbl firmware instead
Hi Peter, Thanks for answering... I'm using LaserGRBL just as an user interface to print. They do have an interface to flash grbl v1.1h with x y homing, inbuilt into their UI, which I guess is nothing more than grbl FW with x and y axis enabled. So yes, I am using grbl firmware only with laser mode enabled. I checked the wiring and everything looks good. I manually tested the limit switches, they are NC connected and open when pressed.... tested with contunity mode with multimeter. However now I am suspecting that could it be that some signal level issues with the limit switches.... I am using these limit switches which need three pins: +ve, GND, Signal. I'm just using two pins which are NC... Are they compatible with Grbl ? In past I've used simple mechanical switches. Could this be an issue ?
Get a BlackBox and some of our Xtension Limits. Use our Software too so the above advice can apply. Learn more on docs.openbuilds.com about our prroduct. PS: disclosing that you are not using OpenBuilds parts, machines, software etc helps us answer you better, so remember to add that information when you post, otherwise we assume you are a customer and thus providing replies accordingly to support our products and also base our replies on our products (for example ours has built in filtering and endstop management circuitry, so we would not even consider pull ups etc to be missing and thus not offer that advice to you because we do not know you have non standard parts). Thanks. For tech support for 3rd party products, contact the vendor you purchased from
Sure... For the sake of sharing knowledge I root caused it after two days to be filtering issue. Added a simple rc filter to resolve it. Hope it helps anyone using my setup.
