DL's loop chains and run a series of motor position reporting

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edit: FW/GC 1.24 Manjaro linux

Branched from here: Holey Triangular Calibration - #95 by dlang not to high-jack the Holey Triangular Calibration, what in my opinion the contributors deserve to be nominated as the Community Gardeners of the year!

On a ~11 1/2 ft motor distance I looped 3 chains.
I had issues with the original code and thought it’s just to remove a minus. That did not do the trick.
While B09 accepts a >> + or - << before the number the B11 seems to ignore it.
I ended with up with changing macros with this result:

Left motor clock-ws B09 L5
Left motor cntr-clock-ws B09 L-5
Right motor cntr-clock-ws B09 R5
Right motor clock-ws B09 R-5
Right motor clock-ws B11 R5
Right motor clock-ws B11 R-5
Left motor cntr-clock-ws B11 L5
Left motor cntr-clock-ws B11 L-5

I did reach a point where GC told me something in the line:

No function has requested a measurement

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This is the work that was done to try to understand the variation of chain-tolerance over the length of the chain. Is that correct?

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In progress. The code don’t work as posted. My understanding is that it will find differences on parts of chain. I’m struggling with direction change with top/bottom feed and that the measurement thows an error message.

Edit: With B11 the - just chages the motors and not the direction to turn. Stuck on this since Saturday. Will wipe eeprom and delete GC.ini, reload the firmware and see if that makes a difference.

Edit2: Also
B09 L95 R-95 ( move to the right about 4 inches )

moves the left motor first and far more then 4 inch and after that the left motor. Handling 2 slack chains requires some ducttape.