Hi everyone

I bought a used workbee with a mesa 7i96 board and I have never used linux befor, I got linuxcnc loaded on an old laptop and started working on the board, the previous owner lost all his files in a move so iv tried to figure out how he wired it but he can't rember how he did it.  I got to the point were I can jog moters, I am now onto endstops and I'm lost, I used the pnconfig wizard to set each endstop on its own pin(micro switches power to com and pin to nc) the only thing he left hooked up was the estop on pin 0 but it's backwards(pushed in let's me power linuxcnc in axis mode) and the ssr for the water pump(220v vfd, water cooled spindle and pump), some of the wiring he left on the out row i don't understand and iv looked for days to see if I could find any guides he may have used.  If any one here knows this board we'll and has time to help me id really appreciate it.  I know linuxcnc isn't the best choice for a new cnc owner and new to linux(I'm use to marlin for 3d printers) but I'd like to try and make this machine come back to life.  If this is posted in the wrong spot please move it to the right spot(new here)

If you can get LInuxCNC running, I would first verify the home switch operation
with halshow.

 

I have a feeling the way I'm trying to wire my end and home min stops is the prob(use to 3d printers) but I redid the pnconfig using discover board and now the endstops don't stop me from turning the machin on in linuxcnc so I'm slowly getting there

hi,
i'm new i also have a mesa7i96 board.
in the next few days i have to configure the limit switches.
how can i launch halshow.
thanks
Milko
From Italy

Finaly getting something done lol, got the end stops to work but now when I home the x, it hits the home/min goes off the switch then hits again but it triggers a joint error causes it shows 0.0001 and not 0.0000 like the z does, is this a switch prob or a me not knowing what I'm doing prob

Posting your current hal and ini files would help debug your issues.

To launch halshow from axis:

Machine --> Show Hal Configuration