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.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks all.