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Originally Posted by EricH
If that's where it's placed, yes.
A better way to put it: it senses if the piston is in the same place the sensor is. This can be useful if you have rigged a 3-position cylinder using a pair of solenoids (yes, it is possible).
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It can also be useful to sense if the piston has fully extended or retracted in order to move on to the next action in a sequence or to control a related process.
Our Breakaway bot last year used an FP winch to assist a 2"x24" piston to lift hang from the tower. We used one of these magnetic sensors at the bottom of the piston to shut off the winch when the lift was complete.
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