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Subject: Re: Motor home status
From: Ron Sluiter <[email protected]>
To: "Rees, NP (Nick)" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:04:57 -0500
Rees, NP (Nick) wrote: 
On a separate note, for some time I have been thinking whether the motor
record should disable soft limit checks whilst homing. The argument
being that soft limits are meaningless when you don't know your absolute
position, and usually the reason you home is that you don't know your
absolute position.
A successfully home search is not the only way to establish an absolute reference position.
Users who "set" the absolute position of their motors are defining an absolute reference
position that is meaningfully to their application.

Users who want/need to do unconditional home search operations can accomplish that at
a higher level than the motor record by temporarily disabling soft limit checks (DHLM = DLLM = 0)
before initiating a home search.

References:
RE: Motor home status Mark Rivers
Re: Motor home status Jim Thomas
RE: Motor home status Rees, NP (Nick)
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