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Re: Mechanical limit switches - acceptable practice?

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
If your root-cause failure analysis reveals that it's a software timing issue (your software as designed can't reliably respond fast enough to the limit switch), you might want to consider using a pot instead of a limit switch as your primary means of preventing motor overtravel. That would give your software a lot more time to respond and slow the motor down.


Awesome, thanks for the input! We'd talked about adding a pot and that sounds like a good option.