Can't Home or Move in Z. UGS Errors

[smokey9lives]

Hi,

When I try to home my machine I get the following Error messages:



Error while processing response: An unexpected command was completed by the controller



(ALARM:9) Homing Fail. Could not find limit switch within search distances. Try increasing max travel



The machine does not move at all before I get these error messages.



Also, I can move in X and Y but not in Z. When I jog Z the UGS controller state (DRO) shows the movement but the machine does not move.



If I trigger the Z switch with my hand the UGS does register it as a hard limit.



I also tried UGS from 2 different computers and got the same results so I don't think the error is in UGS or my laptop.



It had been working fine.



Any help much appreciated!



-Jason

[Derek the Admin]

What might have changed from working to not? Apparently some settings have gotten rewritten because hard limits aren’t enabled by default. Can you type $$ in the command line and press enter then copy and paste the settings here.

[smokey9lives]

Oct 1, 2018 0:37:24 GMT Derek the Admin said:

What might have changed from working to not? Apparently some settings have gotten rewritten because hard limits aren’t enabled by default. Can you type $$ in the command line and press enter then copy and paste the settings here.

It did occur after an emergency stop in the middle of running some g-code.  The only settings I changed in UGS(as far as I know) is changing the units to inches and then back to mm. Other than that I was just cutting some simple parts to learn the UGS interface since I'm used to Mach3 - like trying to set up different work offsets and learning to use the $ commands in UGS.

This is what I get after $$.   Thanks for taking a look!
>>> $$
$0=10
$1=255
$2=0
$3=3
$4=0
$5=0
$6=0
$10=1
$11=0.010
$12=0.002
$13=0
$20=0
$21=1
$22=1
$23=0
$24=35.000
$25=800.000
$26=200
$27=4.000
$30=12000
$31=0
$32=1
$100=100.000
$101=100.000
$102=200.000
$110=10500.000
$111=9525.000
$112=2200.000
$120=600.000
$121=600.000
$122=200.000
$130=632.000
$131=626.000
$132=128.000
ok

[smokey9lives]

The machine is working now! Seems to have healed itself. Not sure but maybe it was an electrical interference issue.

[Derek the Admin]

Glad all is well though.

[Derek the Admin]

Btw, if this is a Power Route the hard limits are enabled by default. Didn’t realize it was.