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Re: Network Switch

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Originally Posted by pmangels17 View Post
You could always measure position with an encoder instead. Just start the elevator at the bottom at the beginning of the match, and then count rotations as it goes up and down. Have a recalibrate feature if anything goes wrong so you manually drop the elevator to the bottom and re-zero.
Last year we did this and we ran into a number of issues with our encoders not being calibrated during autonomous. Based on our autonomous strategy this year, we decided that having to slowly lower the elevator until a limit switch was pressed wasn't super feasible.