Altmill: First machine blues, alarms, etc

So the Altmill is up and running but I’m running into some error codes and was hoping I could get some help from the community. This is my first machine so I have no clue where to even start fixing these issues. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

First off, when homing I’m getting Alarm 8: homing failure. Pull off travel failed to clear limit. Try increasing pull off setting or check wiring.

Secondly when manually jogging to the extreme ends (left and right) of the x axis as well as the extremes of the y axis I get an Alarm 10: E stop asserted. Clear and reset.

Thirdly I tried surfacing just to see if it would do it despite the errors, I press start and get Alarm 2: soft limit reached.

Fourth, It is slamming into the sides even though the sensors are set up. The troubleshooting manual says to check the $22 homing cycle settings so I will do that tonight. It also says “If the settings are correct, reposition the sensors to be farther out from the endplates”. I’m assuming this means to put them closer to what they’re supposed to be sensing, correct?

I have been advised through the Facebook group to turn off soft limits and hard limits, and to check my pull off distance. I will try that tonight and then reassess. In the mean time any help will be met with tons of gratitude.

Hey Jerry,

Congrats on having the machine at home. Sorry to hear that its not without bumps. Please know that we all have had some of these allthough, when your machine runs for a while without them, they are quickly forgiven and forgotten.

Did you loo, at tne troubleshoot manual provided by Sienci? A lot of answers are to be found there.

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Thank You for your response. I was unaware of a troubleshooting document. Thanks for the link. I will reference that to see if I can find any fixes to these issues.

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Thank you for pointing that out. Between the troubleshooting manual and the help I got on Facebook I was able to get the machine surfaced today.

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