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Hallestman

endstops
July 20, 2013 08:39PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 15

I am building a reprap i3 with sanguino electronics and i cannot get the end stops to work at all. i have them all wired up like in schematics but the do no register all the time. sometimes they do register sometimes they don they are very temperamental. any and all advice would be awesome.

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RickM

Re: endstops
July 21, 2013 05:36PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 82

Which endstops are you using? There are a number of variations.

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Hallestman

Re: endstops
July 21, 2013 06:19PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 15

i am using mechanical endstops that i got from radioshack

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CapnBry

Re: endstops
July 23, 2013 02:30PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 32

Sounds like they're either floating or inverted. If you just put switches on, then make sure you enabled ENDSTOPPULLUPS in the firmware configuration. If that's set, then maybe you need to flip the X_ENDSTOPS_INVERTING depending on if you got NO or NC switches.

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Hallestman

Re: endstops
July 23, 2013 04:29PM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 15

capn thank you so much it works perfectly im setting up to do a dry print right now