Couldn’t find anything directly on point for this, so here goes: Installed the Eazy-Z automatic tool setter according to the instructional video. Mounted to wasteboard on far left side facing inward. Followed instructions to set absolute x and y, F1 screen settings, etc. Ran a job with one tool change. After tool 1 completed, it prompted me to change the tool, did that, hit cycle button, and spindle moved to correct location above z setter button. It moved down, depressed the button, and I immediately got a z-axis alarm and homing alarm. Bit did not move off of button and I couldn’t jog the machine until I cleared the alarms. Restarted machine and kept trying, but on restart it would home to the home position, then move to the z setter, and again both alarms would go off. I eventually had to disable the z setter to use the machine again.
I noticed in the install video the “z safe distance to tool setter” value was set to -1.00000. I originally tried this and got the alarms, then went back in and tried using a setting of zero - same result. What is this setting for, exactly, and what should I be putting here? Could this be the issue? When the spindle comes down on the z setter button, it seems like it just wants to keep going down and that causes the alarm. Could this be the issue?
It’s finding the button just fine but something’s wrong with how far down it’s going. Instead of depressing the button and moving back up it just keeps going down and then gives me the alarms.
The z safe distance is the distance from the top of the z travel to a safe distance above the tool setter. Mine is -120mm, your will be different.
* This defines the machine coordinate that the Z axis ca rapid down to before it starts probing the tool length from: Auto Tool Zero Settings
I suspect the issue for you is related to wiring or the input configuration as the Masso isn’t seeing the signal from the tool setter to indicate it to stop and the controller is throwing the alarm due to the axis stalling.
Sorry, I guess I don’t totally understand what you mean by the input being inverted (yes).
I tried unplugging it and disabling it and now unfortunately I’m getting an alarm on all 3 axes and the machine won’t move. Not sure where to go from here. Tech support I guess!
Inverting the input means switching when the input is high, and when it is low.
By default, the inputs are low and turn to high when the sensor is activated.
Inverting the input means the default will be high, and when the sensor is activated, it will change to low.
Inverting the input is done by going to the F1 screen, click on the input you’d like to invert, then press the space bar on the keyboard. Youll see the little green box change from low, to a red box that shows a red “high”.