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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
Potentiometers are cheaper, and in my experience is more robust. Rarely have I found the accuracy of a potentiometer to be a problem in FIRST applications.
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No doubt Potentiometers are cheaper but trying to use one on our kicker for Breakaway we found they can not handle a high rate of acceleration. One release of the surgi-tube powered kicker from fully retracted was all it took to break them. We had to switch to an encoder and then add a limit switch to sense a point to start watching the encoder counts from.