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When you limit every slot on a asteroid collector, it continues to collect as though there is no limit at all. The UI behaves unexpectedly as well, it does not show the collected inventory until you remove the limitation.

Here you can see the inventory is limited. The collector is still collecting asteroids. The inventory does not show what it collects.
When you remove the limiter, the inventory reveals everything it has collected.

The arms still pick up chunks the same way inserters pick up items from belts before they realize the chest is full. If I want to limit an AC, I set the filter to prometheum which works until you are past the edge of the solar system.
Edit: I just checked and the only option other than valid asteroid chunks are BP parameters; I wonder what happens when you set an AC to collect Parameter Zero? It would be nice to have something like the deconstruction planner to say filter out every valid chunk.