Manual mode should make the encoders moot. Manual mode should be stitching happening at a regular stitches-per-minutes regardless of whether you are moving the head or not.
Regulated mode uses the encoders to tell the head when to make a stitch as they detect motion (wheels rolling) on the carriage and frame.
Now, in regulated mode you have precise, where it starts and stops with movement, and continuous, where when you get below a certain motion it kind of acts like manual (keeps stitching).
When you say "skipped stitches" - are holes being made but the stitch not completed or are you getting long stitches mixed in with small stitches?
Front to back is movement of machine on carriage. Without the machine on, if you move it to a location does it want to slide forward or backwards on its own?
Normally, you would have skipped stitches in regulated but all fine in manual. You're describing the opposite, which is very unusual.
Last edited by mkc; 02-12-2023 at 01:43 PM.