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Re: So, How do you shift?

For the past two years we've used a shift lever attached to a rotary switch with resistors in series. We wire that to an empty aux or wheel pin on an OI joystick port. This gives us an "analog-digital" input. We read that in the FRC and interpret it as a gear request, to send a pwm value to our shifting servos. The shifting itself is open loop. Testing it is a part of our pre-match check-out in the pit.
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