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Re: What's the biggest fix you've had to do in between matches?

We had the potentiometer that measured our shooter height seize up while testing right before a match. In the ~5 minutes that we had to be on the field for the match, we diagnosed the proplem, removed the set screw holding in the old potentiometer, unsoldered the old potentiometer, found a new potentiometer, soldered it in, and re-mounted it. We literally finished as the match before ours ended, and managed to get onto the field and win the match.
A similar situation occured at the Pine Tree Regional last year when we had to replace an encoder on our climbing arm.
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