As I'm learning to use the lathe, but there's one thing I just can't understand. After powering on the machine, you can jog it all you want before referencing, but the limit switches are not utilized at all until you reference them. When jogging you can trigger the limit and nothing happens. So, it's possible to jog the machine against its mechanical limits. Why would you ever want this? Is it by design for some reason? In what scenario would you ever want to not read the switches and crash the machine into its mechanical limits?

On another note, I encountered an honest to goodness software glitch today. All of a sudden, the keyboard arrows would no longer jog the machine, but instead would increase or decrease the percentages on slider controls. A reboot did not fix it, but toggling the enable and disable check box on the settings tab did. Has anyone else encountered this?

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