Thread: What kind of sensor should we use?
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Re: What kind of sensor should we use?
Question: Do you REALLY need a sensor for this? Window lift motors are meant to be stalled without burning up or anything. It would be simpler and faster to put some physical stops in the system so that you're just running from one stop to another. Then you put in a little simple code to only run it for x.x seconds in one direction and y.y seconds in the other direction. Problem solved without sourcing a sensor or figuring out how to program it.
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