M5 pendant, Jogging screen

Hi Guys - I have successfully installed jackpot 3 on my LR4 - I noticed when I go into the jogging screen on the M5 Pendant .

  1. I cannot go back on to the main menu after jogging around .
  2. When doing a manual jog the limit switches do not work when it gets activated.

Any advise will be highly appreciated .

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Touch the right side of the screen and swipe left. That will take you back to the main screen. From memory that is the only screen that doesn’t have a back button.

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it works - thanks for the quick response on question 1 .

Anything I am doing wrong on question 2?

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Sorry I answered number 1 and then squirreled.

Limit switches only work during homing. If you jog past the limit its going to crash. Good thing is this usually doesn’t cause any issues, just skipped steps on the stepper motors. It will sound like grinding. Doesn’t hurt the motors. But you will lose machine position/square and will have to home the machine again after that happens. That is one big feature with V1 machines, you can crash without breaking expensive stuff.

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They aren’t supposed to in our standard config.
They’re only used in homing/squaring.

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That is the standar config for fluidnc. If OP needs he has to activate Soft limits. (Thats another thing)

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