I think one of the beta team referred to the beta team as “vexatious” or some such!! LOL
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In this topic: Status on Lowrider 4 - #216 by SupraGuy
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Endplates are assembled, time to move on to the beam!
Waiting for some final prints to complete and thinking about wiring, I realized I won’t have the correct plugs for my endstops. I had some bare endstops sitting around, so I soldered wires to them but obviously the other end remain bare wire.
I have these plug types (sorry I never recall the proper names of all of these tiny components) which clipped in to the SKR pro, but looking at the jackpot I’ll need the female plugs that do not clip in, correct? Same goes for stepper driver plugs, yes?
Does have any suggestions absent the correct plugs? Always a bummer to delay the build and buy like 500 components when I need like 8 tiny pieces, nothing more 
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Correct. As long as you trust the printer.
Unfortunately 1 bad piece can equal 10 pieces of wasted filament.
depending on your firmware and amount you are paying attention to it. With exclude object in klipper you can stop one part if its failing and not lose the rest. Very nice feature! If you are paying enough attention to use it 
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I think that is in marlin now too!
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That’s very kind, but really not necessary- I am thrilled to have been able to participate constructively!
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You’re making good progress.
You should start your own build thread, so your progress and questions aren’t lost in a sea of posts in a general purpose status thread.
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Yup, I’ll do that. I realize several of us have been using this thread for these one-offs because it seems to be where everyone’s eyeballs are but it’s probably not the best for the forum and making it easy to find information.
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Awesome, Thanks for posting the link. Question, for those of us that have the Fluid NC Dial pendant Kit from Bart Dring is there a modified box base for the PCB Jack that attaches to the Jackpot board? (should I just attempt a remix?)
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Bart has step files for a case that fits with his board for the pendant.
I believe Doug has one as well
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Doug’s FluidDial case is here:
I’ve posted one of my makes there. It works great.
Doug also has a cradle for the LR4 with that case. I haven’t tried this cradle.
I had to drill out the spacer for the Jackpot from Doug’s design as I use M3 screws to attach Bart’s expansion board to my Jackpot.
My jackpot is open on the beam on my RC2 LR4 beta build. Doug or someone else will have to confirm the fit of the expansion board in the stock V1 LR4 Jackpot case.
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There are not spare inputs on the jackpot, It’s easier to wire them in series with NC configuration(with NO they have to be connected in parallel), and configure FluidNC lime this:
I soldered the core’s switches in series, with a single connector on te Board side, and create a custom extension cable to connect the YZ’s switches.
In this way You can use the spare Gpio.39 as a Feed hold button, or a safety door button.
It was not meant for use with Limit switches on both sides. They were put there for you to install the limit switch on the side you chose to home to. Placing switches on both sides will not do any good since it will only use the switches during homing, under normal running/jogging the switches are ignored.
Standard config is to home to X- Y- Z+. The additional endstop locations give you the ability to home to X+ and/or Y+ if you would rather.
@vicious1 might need something in the notes about this if its not already there
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If you use both limit switches You can use Hardstop on each axis and use all the workspace, like with softlimits, but with the safety that if the machine loose steps doesn’t hit the side.
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I understand that you can. But that is not how the V1 config is set up. So as long as you understand that you will have to make config edits to make that work and are comfortable with that, then you should be good to go
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I have the pendant printed and assembled… The end of the kit that attaches to the jackpot board would have a jack that exits the other side of the Lowrider 4 control box…
Sorry if I was unclear… Is there a box file that is modified for that additional pcb/jack?
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Yeah, I’m confident about it, and I’ll share my conclusions and configuration for who want to try it
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Ahh. No. Not that I know of anyways. The box Ryan made has room for the cable to plug in and run out of the box as is. That is what I am using on my build. I believe the other boxes made have room for it as well
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