Feeder confusion - sure its my fault

[trev]

HI

I created a feeder type from the standard 10x8mm. I loaded my components into the feeder and set components to lanes from the software.

When I went to test I found that the feeder would go to lane 1 but would index lane 10 and vice versa. I went to the feeder setup and tried to change the ref1 and ref2 positions but it said that only ref1 was reachable. Ref2 I could not set. When I swapped ref1 and ref2 positions then both became reachable. But in this swapped state the lane positions are totally confused. As said it thinks lane1 position is index 10 but wont let me change them.

Is this a common beginner gotcha?

Trev

[Mike]

Lanes are numbered 0-9, 0 is furthest from you on a right-side feeder. Software deals with rotation for left-side feeders.
From memory I think first ref is lane zero, and lane pitch is a negative value

[trev]

Thanks Mike. I set the feeder to address A but I put in the opposite side. I did not click that the address is fixed to the position. Kinda obvious but it was when you said the machine handles reversing the positions automatically that it clicked.

Trev