Intresting Autonomous

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Skywalkar

My team has been searching for analog switches of the variety you speak of, but we haven't been able to locate anything that we were certain was what we were looking for. Could you please post a link to somewhere that we could purchase those switches? Thanks!

We've used the this potentiometer with detents before.

It's also common to take a rotary switch and solder resistors in series, between each terminal, to turn it into a rotary potentiometer.

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

We've used the this potentiometer with detents before.

It's also common to take a rotary switch and solder resistors in series, between each terminal, to turn it into a rotary potentiometer.

As Joe described, we are putting resistors (like 10K or so) in series across the terminals of a rotary switch. We have used Radioshack rotary switches before, but we now use these Electroswitch ones:
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/Dk...me=451-1027-ND

They have 12 positions but we only use 6 positions and use 2 of them (6 * 6 = 36 auto selections, we rarely need more than that ).

Joe's suggestion of a pot with 10 detents is also a good idea. They are cheaper and much easier to solder. We'll stick with the rotary switches to avoid the very minor risk of setting them in between detents.

Another interesting new feature to use for auto mode selection is the Driver Station LCD. During Disabled mode, we pint a short name for the Auto routine on the LCD screen so it can be confirmed.

[Ryan_Todd]

Thanks a ton, both of you!
Expect to see 862 at the Championship, sporting a full compliment of autonomous modes.