Also, in addition to using sensors to stop your lift, be sure to have said sensors included in autonomous. Otherwise, you can have bad things happen to your robot. Case in point:
http://i.imgur.com/jTXfc1l.jpg
That's a 10:1 stage from a versaplanetary. We had to start an autonomous mode with our elevator down at the bottom of the robot. In teleop, we have a limit switch that stops the motor from applying downward force on the elevator. It was never included in autonomous because the elevator was never intended to travel anywhere near the bottom of the robot. Needless to say, bad things happened.
(Special shoutout to 3663 CPR for the assist. We were up and running for the next qualification match like nothing had happened.)
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