Using a limit switch to limit motion

[ManicMechanic]

After some futzing with the terminal window, our programmer was able to retrieve the joystick position and use it to stop upward motion on the joysticks if the limit is reached, but still enable the joysticks for downward motion (now there is no wobble). His comment on this discovery was "Programming with Vex is Jawesome!"

[EricS-Team180]

Originally Posted by charrisTTI

The actual switch should not be the hard mechanical stop. Design the mounting of your switches so that something else takes the force of the overdrive.

<sigh> Too true. We were between a rock and a hard place (HA! no pun intended) on the location of those limits on the sliding mechanism (a series of drawer sliders). Spent all season dealing with it...a lesson learned in the end.