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Re: Inexpensive Slip Ring for Turret

I would agree with Jon. In 2012, my team (at the time) had far more range than we ever used on the turret. The fact is, you can rotate your robot with its drive train to get close to where you want to aim, then use a finer grained adjustment on a turret to do final alignment. Will save a lot of time and your drivers will do this anyway, even if you have >360 deg rotation on the turret. So a lazy susan with a cable tether is likely the right solution here, IMO.
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