Gene, that’s very odd behavior.  My machine isn’t homed (still just working on 
basic tuning) when I’m doing my tests and your behavior sounds similar.  I 
wonder if we could determine the reason for this difference in behavior.

> On Jun 30, 2021, at 9:25 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 30 June 2021 14:47:57 Les Newell wrote:
> 
>> On 30/06/2021 12:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> This is good to know Les, thank you. But for those who don't know
>>> how to achieve that, a 1 axis example would be a huge help.
>> 
>> In your INI file, there are two places where you can set the MIN_LIMIT
>> and MAX_LIMIT (joint and axis). Just make sure you hit the axis limit
>> before the joint limit. The difference does not need to be much.*
>> *
>> 
>>> In making a servo for axis A/B/C in a stepper machine, there is a
>>> huge differential in how it runs unhomed, and how it runs after
>>> homed. Being a full rotation device, it has no limits set.
>> 
>> In that case you won't be using soft limits, so it makes no
>> difference.
> 
> I agree. But thats not how it seems to work. I won't say its unusable 
> when unhomed, but its 10% of its homed speed of it is jogged whle 
> unhomed and it suffers from windup badly even running that slow. It acts 
> like it afraid to move if not homed. The rest of the stepper motor 
> driven stuff works well, homed or not. And it, "A" does more reversals 
> while homing, some times visibly away from the switch, with no false 
> switch stuff detected. Once homed it behaves itself exactly, stopping 
> within an arc-second of where I sent it, as long as it can get stopped 
> w/o any overshoot.  Thats dangerous because the pwmgen, if coasting too 
> far, will try to reverse it while its still turning and that crowbars 
> and shuts down its 24 volt 10 amp supply for about a 2 minute cooldown 
> before a power cycle by the f2 key restores it. So I'm forced to use 
> much slower (10% or less) speeds while homing it, than it can run during 
> normal, homed operation.
> 
>> Les
>> 
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