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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott
One word: e-stop. Seriously, you should never run your bot without it. If you see something going wrong, simply stop it.
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Sound advice in all automation. However, electronics can be damaged before you can slam the button and even the average human reaction time can be sufficient. Worse you may not notice the increasing temperatures of the speed controls as you're keeping your hands clear.
http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/...time/stats.php
We have some assemblies in which we have multiple motors mechanically linked and the speed controls can pay dearly from trivial programming errors.