Been working with my xcarve for a few months now and it has been mostly doing a great job (aside from the learning curve). I have been seeing some lost steps mainly in the x axis, so decided to check my wiring and such (mechanical all seems fine and voltage pot seems fine). I never grounded my shielded wiring to the steppers so I decided to go ahead and solder a wire from the shielding and sheath to ground. My end stop wiring is all shielded and and the shielding itself is grounded.
Now I am seeing erratic errors when I home the machine. My wiring includes a small perfboard that has all the end stops soldered to it and a female header so I can easily remove it from the Gshield. I soldered the shielded stepper wire to the ground rail on my perfboard. The behavior is such that it seems that the end stops are getting triggered before they actually hit the home position. To verify that this is the case (it was the only change I made) I snipped the stepper ground cable leading to the arduino. Voila, my machine homes without issue once again.
Am I grounding this shielding incorrectly? Why is the grounding interfering with my end stops? (I am seeing this behavior with the spindle OFF-- have dewallt 611 and nema 23’s).
Thanks!