Well, I don't know what I would do without this forum
I appreciate any one who can help to keep me moving forward

My new problem is I lost my "all reference home"

I do have the yellow abnormal light on

I read everything I could find on the yellow flashing abnormal light
and I realize it is an alert to a irregular condition....

But, I do have yellow lights on m1 limit and m1 home on the
diagnostics screen....

I can't get those to go out....

when I try to "all reference home" the z axis reverses off the home switch and
the "reference home" cycle stops right there with a message "triggered limit switch"

I suspect this problem is link to my yellow lights on M1 limit and m1 home

thanks in advance for taking the time to help

Sounds like you may have noise or dodgy switches. If the Z references fine (machine coords go zero for it) then it is likely your X that is the problem. You could try setting a ddebounce interval of 2000 in General Config to see if it makes a difference.
Hood

well, I found the configuration for de-bounce interval.... it was set on 100
I set it to 2000 but, it do anything different
after hitting reference home the z axis zero's out reverses off the switch and stops
with triggered limit switch....

It started doing this after I created a sample project on Cut 2D....By accident I checked
"scale data with job" when I ran the program x and y both went in the opposite directions
of the home switch when it became apparent they had no intention of stopping
I hit the E stop just about the time it crashed....I don't think it hit and if it did
it didn't hard....

before I proceed don't I need to see if I can't figure this out ??

Try to reverse signal from the switch config menu.

Try active low or high for the X and Y axis.

Just a guess.


Jeff

okay  this is what I got

on x- and x home... active off moves away from home swtich

x- and x home both off... moves away from home switch

x- off and x home on...moves opposite direction

both checked on nothing....

I never did get it to move toward the home switch
does this tell us anything??

Can you attach your xml please and I will see if there is an issue in your config.
Hood

I know you have explained this a thousand times on this forum
but, could you explain where to find and how to
get an xml and I will send it

thanks!!!!!!!!!

Open Mach and look lower right at the profile name. Close Mach and browse to the main Mach3 folder and look for a file with the profiles name and a xml file extension. Copy it to your desktop and rename to something like trparker.xml then use the additional options button on the reply page to attach to the forum.
Hood

I sure appreciate you looking at this
this machine is like 2 weeks old
I hope I had messed the thing up

you know out of  curiosity I opened this file
and it is empty ....
the profile name is S720 and I did exactly
as you said...I will go and look for another