Thread: Controlling Arm travel - Limit Switch or Mechanical Stop?
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Best way, (maybe?)
Posted by Matt Berube at 1/31/2001 3:46 PM EST


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In Reply to: Controlling Arm travel - Limit Switch or Mechanical Stop?
Posted by Peter Zobel on 1/31/2001 3:06 PM EST:



: Rookie team requesting advice...
: What is the best way to limit travel of an arm - limit switch? mechanical stop? Both? Neither?

The best way to control the arm position, in my opinion, is to put a potentiometer on the axle and write your code so that the arm stops when the pot gets to a certain value. With this method you can have many "pre-set" arm positions, at least until you run out of push-buttons.

Matt Berube
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"that OTHER Delphi team"
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