Thread: Controlling Arm travel - Limit Switch or Mechanical Stop?
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Pots seconded
Posted by Andy Baker at 2/1/2001 7:11 AM EST


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In Reply to: Best way, (maybe?)
Posted by Matt Berube on 1/31/2001 3:46 PM EST:



I'll second Matt's advice here. Potentiometers are harder to set up than limit switches, but you can do more with them. We've used them exclusively over the past three years... sometimes with no hard stops (not always).

The only thing bad about potentiometer sensing is that sometimes it is out of "alignment", and you gotta tweak its position in order to make sure its limits are the limits desired.

Andy B.



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