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Re: Encoder on SRX Returning wildly differing values

Amen! Thanks and grateful for your input. Our competition encoders E4Ts and mag encoders and boards from our great CTR vendor are in transit right now. and they will be kept in the china cabinet until our electronics mentor is ready for them. We might be getting a new fridge this summer I am thinking about turning the old fridge into a robot part storage cabinet.

What was great about the problem was the kids got to see how to diagnose the issue and confirm it was broken. We took the optical reader off and cleaned it with an alcohol wipe. Did some manual turns of the wheels. It was a good night.

The other thing that came out of the effort was some of the tasks our pit crew will be doing to check the bot after we compete. Learned a lot from the mistake.
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