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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
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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If I'm not mistaken, the window motors will auto-protect if they trip the internal thermal limit. The software timer would definitely be a good idea in this case.
OP, can you provide a simple sketch of your mechanism?