Micro Switches (Failed homing seq. and desire for better switches)

[ErikJenkins]

Here is how I did it…I initially had it hooked up to the G-Shield, but I have since gone to the Gecko G540 and Ethernet Smoothstepper but they still work great and can be connected to the X-Controller as well.

It's Alive

Yesterday I removed my mechanical homing/limit switches as I started getting noise like several others. I replaced the homing switches with hall effect limit switches. I purchased 5 of them from: These switches have 3 connections instead of the 2 on the mechanical ones. 1 goes to the Arduino Ground, 1 to the Arduino +5 volts and the third to the appropriate pin just like the mechanical switches. There are 2 LEDs to indicate the state, tripped or not, red and green. I have run the homing …