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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
If they react too early, you don't hit the plate... If they react too late, you've potentially loaded up the entire system w/o breaking anything and it'll be a real pain to remove from the field (or you devastated the touch plate).
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Well, the plate has a bright light on it, so the "too early" thing isn't a huge concern for me. Too late is a problem, depending on your design - any design is going to need a way to relieve the rope tension or stop at exactly the right time to work. Depending on how fast the hanger goes, you can have a second button to run the winch more slowly when you're near the top.
Alternately, put a vex bumper switch on whatever mechanism is doing the plate contact for you.
Edit: Apparently the touchpad only illuminates when you've reached the 1 second threshold. Thanks, GDC...