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Re: Dart Linear Acuator

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Originally Posted by Coach Seb View Post
Did you guys figure out how to wire and program this potentiometer? Looking to do the same... any help would be appreciated...

Coach Seb
We are using Labview and the potentiometers with our Dart Actuators with decent success. I don't have our robot near me at the moment but I believe that the top Pin (Pin 3) was Negative, the center Pin (Pin 1) we used as Positive, and the bottom pin (Pin 2) was the pin that we used as our signal pin.

When programming the POTs we sent the values from the robot to the smart dashboard. From there, we slowly ran the actuator up and down between full up and full down and recorded the values with a few hundredths as leeway on each end to use as limits. I attached a few pictures of our begin, telop, and periodic tasks vis. Let me know if you have any questions.
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