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Re: Potentiometer 5 or 6 detents
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Originally Posted by Travis Covington
We want to use it to select autonomous modes. Anything under 12 detents will work. We are just having trouble actually finding any. I know some of you have used these... a part number would be great! Thanks!
It seems like it may be rather hard to find such a pot. You may want to just use a standard pot, however, and program the robot to respond to ranges of analog input rather than a specific value. So that you could turn it approximately to the correct program, rather than the specific value.

If you don't have too many autonomous programs you could use a series of switches as a binary selector. You'd only need 5 bits (5 inputs out of the 4 ports) to cover the 12 modes you seem to need and more.
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