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Re: Curious: how many limit switches to teams typically use?

We have a 'new' programming team this year, and with some help from 1511 have encoders working. We will probably be moving more toward encoders and away from limit switches as the years progress -- but as I indicated before, we've had great success with them. Easy to mount, easy to program, and relatively cheap...

...and thanks for the idea on the encoder-as-limit, kgzak. That's a rather important piece of functionality that we should add to our algorithm!
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