AndyMark RAW Box and Potentiometer

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Originally Posted by vigneshv

Hi!
We're using an AndyMark RAW Box as the gearbox for our angle changer mechanism for our shooter, but we want to have a reliable way of determining the angle of the shooter, which will not depend on position at the start of the match (so preferably not an encoder, we're leaning towards using a potentiometer). Have any teams successfully attached a potentiometer to an AndyMark RAW Box, and how have you done it (or any gearbox with a threaded output)?

You mileage may vary, but we had a raw box for our shooter arm angle (it also had the ball pickup on the same arm) and we destroyed a gear in the box at a week zero event. We've replaced the gearbox with a different solution and also lightened the arm somewhat.