# Ready to just throw this darn thing in the TRASH

**URL:** <https://community.inventables.com/t/ready-to-just-throw-this-darn-thing-in-the-trash/18900>\
**Category:** X-Carve\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/ready-to-just-throw-this-darn-thing-in-the-trash/18900 "2016-01-17T22:34:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/ready-to-just-throw-this-darn-thing-in-the-trash/18900/16 "2016-01-19T22:16:31Z")

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This thread might help:

> [@Homing/Limit Switches](https://community.inventables.com/t/homing-limit-switches/14999):
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> Looking at things from the grbl perspective, the term “limit switch” only applies for the X-carve if you use hard limits ($21=1) . Looking at things from the grbl perspective, all other cases for the X-carve the switches are “homing switches”. Homing switches allow soft limits ($20=1) to work. For this case the “limits” depend on having done the homing cycle and on the low end the limits are 0,0,0 and the limits on the high end are set by $130, $131, and $132. After the homing sequence the swi…

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