Physical Start Button and External E-Stop

CNC Machines
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I did a search and found one post asking about adding a physical start button. The short thread was about 3 years old (feb 2022). The answer then was to run it through a raspberry pi. I am wondering if this is the still the case. We are looking at getting an additional Shapeoko 5 pro for running one product line and I would much rather my operators have the ability to just hit a physical start button after reloading their parts.

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I will be putting this system in an enclosure and placing door safety switches so the system cannot run when the doors are open. Is there a limit on e-stop cycles in this controller? I have had one brand of robot we use that is limited on e-stop cycles and I just want to be sure this wasn’t the case here or if I am better off tying “my do no run while doors are open” signal into the feed hold ckt.

Thank you in advance.

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Please see:

For the wiring specifics, not sure if we can offer guidance from support or no, but please start by checking in there.

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I did read that post before creating mine, but, since this was older than the start button post from 2022 that I found I wasn’t sure if it had been updated.

@WillAdams
Thank you for your response, I will look into doing this.

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