I have been using Lightburn for a about 2 years without any major issues, but suddenly I have a problem with my home position switches. I have micro switches connected in parallel and connected between ground and pin D9 on the arduino nano on my grbl controler, I have checked and both switches are working correctly but when I tell the machine to go to home, the X axis moves correctly, hits the switch then backs off a little, but the Y axis just hits the switch and tries to drive past it.
I have replaced the nano but this made no difference.
Any suggestions? Have I accidentaly changes a setting somewhere?
I am using firmware 1.1f
Edit to add, I have found that connecting the Y home switch to pin D10 now homes correctly (didn’t need a seperate pin before!) but now the machine wants to home to the wrong position!.. getting there slowly!
Thanks for that, I can now make the machine home correctly when I select the “Home” button or send $H, but when the machine connects I get
[MSG’$H’ |’$X’ to Unlock]
error:9
[MSG:Caution: Unlocked]
The machine does not home automaticaly on start up, but everything else seems to be working fine.
Not a major problem just annoying! (I have checked the limit switches are working fine, now using grbl 1.1h)
I’m getting the error 9 also, can you help with what you mean by “re flashed” the firmware? I ran xloader(from jtech site), but can’t find the grbl.hex its referring to?? any help is greatly appreciated. I just didn’t want the “error 9” to cause an issue, thanks
Hi,
I connected the limit switches to pins 9 & 10 of the arduino nano, for the firmware, after a lot of trial and error I downloaded a copy of T2 Laser (works ok but not as good as Lightburn) I selected “control laser” then “machine” then “custom firmware” then uploaded 1.1f XY Home Sw.
Works perfectly now.
Edit to add, I also disabled the Hard Limits setting in Edit - Machine settings ($21)
