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Re: regulated power for potentiometer
I'm shocked that you're having this problem and we have not run into this. My team has a penchant for using a TON of motors (13-15) and at least 3-5 pots each year and we haven’t run into this. Plus our driver drives like a bandit and we have our 6 CIM drive geared to the moon this year so I know we're sucking some serious juice out of the battery. We do buy ten brand new batteries every year and use a freshly charged battery every match which helps us.

Any major mechanical inefficiencies in the system?

Are all your crimps and terminals good? Anything getting super warm?

Have you tried swapping the analog breakout?
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