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Chapter 5
5.3 Homing Motors
Homing the motor moves the actuator to the home limit switch and resets the internal
position counter to zero. The limit switch provides a fixed datum that can be found
after the system has been powered up.
Fig. 5.3 DC Driver K-Cube Software GUI
1) Click the ‘Home’ button. Notice that the led in the button lights to indicate that
homing is in progress and the displayed position counts down to 000.000, i.e the
home position.
2) When homing is complete, the ‘Homed’ LED is lit as shown above.
See Appendix E Section E.2.2. for background information on the home position.
Note
After homing, shaft relaxation may cause a small position offset to be
displayed. This relates only to one or two encoder counts and is not
significant in terms of ‘real world’ positioning.
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