Brand new to CNC routing

Just received my LongMill MK2.5 yesterday, finished setting it up today and downloaded gsender then followed the instructions to the carriage in all directions, worked great until I turned the machine off to finish final adjustments of the wheels.

When I turned the LongMill back on and open gsender I get one of two error messages.
One error says to check here to unlock the machine and the other (randomly) says to Home the machine. I have no clue to how to do either. Sorry for my dumb question but I’ve never run a CNC Router before.

Thanks.
Ed

@Jyuma Welcome to the group, Ed.

I replied to your other post as well. I strongly recommend that you read the tech manual for the SLB. You can find it here.

Also, read the manual for gSender.

What do you plan to use as your CAD/CAM application?

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VCarve Pro.

btw, the problem disappeared for 2 days but has returned today.

It’s been several months since I visited this forum, not for lack of interest but rather because everything has been working fine. I’ve made several guitars some of which have already been sold, but just today I ran into a brand-new problem that I can’t find a solution for.

Way back when I first purchased my Long Mill I also order a set of magnetic sensors to prevent overrun of machine limits. Life intervened and I never set them up, until now.

Today I followed all the instructions for setting the sensors, enabling the “Home” feature, setting hard and soft limits and all appeared to work as expected, that is until I tried to set the XYZ positions for my workpiece, only to discover that I couldn’t set the lower left XY and material surface for Z coordinates. The XYZ probe function no longer works.

I must be missing something in my interpretation of the instructions, but I can’t find anything wrong. Out of desperation I undid all the changes I had made only to find that my probe still refused to function.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

I use the same block I’ve been using all along to set the locations but when I try to touch the block to confirm the connection it never sets to begin the probe. It does nothing.

Thanks
Ed