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Originally Posted by BrianBSL
A 1 second delay does not sound normal.
If you are using these for limit switches, you will likely need a pullup resistor (something like 4.7k should work) to 5V, as I don't believe the analog ports have any pullup within the RC like the digital ports do, since a switch works in an open-drain configuration rather than driving rail to rail.
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That did it. You guessed correctly that we were simply grounding the signal line and did not include a pullup to +5V. The RC guide on IFI Robotics indicates that a 10K resistor is appropriate, so we used that. In PWM wire terms, we wired black(Gnd) to the switch NO (normally open contact), red(+5V) to the switch NC (normally closed), and white(signal) to the switch COM(common). This worked out fine for us, no delays. We now get values near 0 for a closed switch, and values near 1023 for an open switch (we map 0-511 to CLOSED, 512-1023 to OPEN just to be safe).
Thanks for the tip Brian!