Yes that clears it up but should I have to do that?
Big picture is can it do any harm to the drivers or the motors to be sitting there with that idle current applied. It consumes power for which you get no work and you’ve got your driver boards in use so you are aging the components and again getting no production or use from them for that idle time.
Does the controller software have a time out where the drivers are shut down after x number of minutes of inactivity? I understand the need for idle current (depending on the motor used). Just wondering if the Onefinity stepper drivers are programmed to shut down and if so what the time is because after 15 minutes mine are still running. And if they were programmed to shut down then giving it that bump should not cause the idle current to be reduced to zero. If anything bumping should reset the clock on the inactivity timer to zero.
Or is it because the motor has stopped on a micro-step so the driver is applying current to hold it in that position.