Running Past Sensors Sometimes

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Re: Buddy 32 Standard Version 1.

I've been reacquainting myself with my Buddy 32 and notice that it picks up the prox. switches fine when doing the Home X and Y using prox. switches command and "usually" if I'm approaching them from a short distance. However, when I run from farther away using the buttons on the keypad, the Z car and/or table roll on by and hit the hard stops. I've checked myself to be sure I'm not re-triggering by coming up against the sensor then restarting from that point. My targets are as close as I dare get them to the sensors.

I've found quite a bit of prox. switch discussion in the archives but can't seem to find a comment that I seem to recall about slow keyboard response. Maybe I'm mistaken. Is it likely that slow response to the keypad is what's happening here?

As I'm writing this, what I've not done yet is to watch if the sensors blink quickly or not as they're bypassed but I'm not at the shop right now.

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Ryan at tech support tells me I may have the limit switches turned off in Values/Input Switch Mode (I'm away from the shop) but as I think of it, they are working sometimes from the keypad and sometimes not so that doesn't seem logical (I forgot to tell him that part by the way).

I've never made any changes to the normally open or normally closed settings - don't even know where they are so unless updating the software & firmware would do that, it would not have been changed.

In the meantime, I'm still digging through the archives on this. Besides the slow keyboard response that I think I saw somewhere, it also seems that others have had issues with this when they updated their SB software to 3.6.xx but the problem disappeared when they loaded an older version. Being a Mac user with little knowledge of MS/Win7 can anyone advise if that's not just click/click/click :confused:

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Fixed. (1) I now understand that the sensors are setup differently on the PRS than on the PRT - thanks tech support. (2) Based on what I was able to glean from this and other forums, it seems likely my memory at 512 meg was not up to the job of supporting newer software versions, which makes sense - thanks much to those whose advise I was able to find in the various archives. This seems to explain why my machine was running past the sensors when I "ran" the axis from some distance without triggering the switch at the other end. Added memory, issue gone.

In summary, nothing wrong with the Shopbot or its software; just a need to dig further into the archives when I got muddled and then do some trial and error to eventually better understand things. Hope this can save some other greenhorn some lost time.

Kudo's to the archives and those who built them. As a number of kind souls who answer the same newbie questions over and over suggest, they're well worth it. It just takes awhile to figure out how to use search terms effectively. Thanks much you guys :)