Has anybody put end-of-travel switches in their tiller pilot? I got some microswitches now, but I am not sure yet how to put them in in such a way that I can adjust them. These switches have this long metal strip that I can bend a few times, but rather I'd have some adjustment screw for that. It all has to be tiny. If you have any (adjustable) implementation of end-of-travel switches, please share or describe for inspirational purposes.
Already off-topic, but a rudder angle indicator seems quite difficult to devise inside tiller pilot's lineair actuators. The traditional potentiometer is not practical here. Better would be some magnetic / optical mechanism that counts revolutions of the screw, possibly in combination with the end-of-travel switches. Any experience here?
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I cannot get my head around how it is possible to make a PID control without knowing the exact position of the rudder. Without knowing it, you have to guess. But humans do that as well. With one of those big steering wheels, quite often you don't know either, unless someone marked the middle with a piece of tape. But to me that's not optimal, especially for a 'deaf, dumb and blind' autopilot.
Already off-topic, but a rudder angle indicator seems quite difficult to devise inside tiller pilot's lineair actuators. The traditional potentiometer is not practical here. Better would be some magnetic / optical mechanism that counts revolutions of the screw, possibly in combination with the end-of-travel switches. Any experience here?
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I cannot get my head around how it is possible to make a PID control without knowing the exact position of the rudder. Without knowing it, you have to guess. But humans do that as well. With one of those big steering wheels, quite often you don't know either, unless someone marked the middle with a piece of tape. But to me that's not optimal, especially for a 'deaf, dumb and blind' autopilot.