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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Wow, that certainly sounds like a complex feedback setup!. Have you considered other options that may be simpler? For example, if your elevator is powered on a winch, you could hook up a potentiometer to the winch and use it to measure the location of the elevator. We did something similar a few years back with a winch and a 10-turn pot, and it worked perfectly the entire season.

It definitely is very complicated. We didn't want to gear down a shaft on our winch to only rotate 10 turns over 6'. We ran the numbers and we were aiming for more precision than we would be getting with a pot. We also have a large electronics and software team this year so we have an entire subteam working on this one sensor. They have made lots of progress and it actually is working really nicely.

There are a number of benefits most notably precision (1/8" over the whole travel). After this year we may package up the sensor so it's easy to reuse.