It is a watchdog. It is a feature in which the control software will send a pulse stream through a pin, as if it was moving an axis. Then a microcontroller on the breakout board will see that pulse stream and will know that the signals coming ...
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3 conditions must be met to get the enable LED:
The board must be properly powered. Check the documentation on the board, as a misunderstanding on how it is powered is very possible.
The board must be connected to a PC/Motion Controller which is c...
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YES!!!!
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The HLFB is not accessed directly, but it is accessed by the breakout board and used to trigger e-stop if activated.
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Most of the accuracy you can expect from this switch may be associated with the machine and the mounting of the switch. The switch itself is very good quality, it is not comparable to the cheap ones you find on eBay. Note that our inductive sw...
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There are two ways of doing this. If your drivers get enabled with +5vdc, then just feed the output of pin 17 to the enable of the drivers. If you need a different signal, then use Relay3 for this.
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You can… You can assign and wire any available output for this. But here are some thoughts on this:
On stepper drivers it is usually not all that beneficial to use the enable, as they usually have auto low power when not moving, so you just can leave...
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