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Geo MACRO Drive User Manual

162 Absolute Power On Online Commands

With Ixx10 set to 0, the action of $* is very similar to that of the HOMEZ command. There are a few

significant differences, however:

$* always kills the motor; HOMEZ leaves the servo in its existing state.

$* sets the present actual position to be zero; HOMEZ sets the present commanded position to be zero.

$* zeros the hardware encoder counter in most cases; HOMEZ does not change the hardware encoder

counter.

All of the motors in a single coordinate system that require an absolute position read can be commanded

at once with the coordinate-system specific $$* command.