Thread: Determining Motor Speed?
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Re: Determining Motor Speed?
The US digital encoder is for a 1/4 shaft. The CIM-U-LATOR has a 8MM shaft. will not work. The MOD box adapter shaft will work. Just adjust the encoder counts by the gear ratio. Most of the AndyMark gear boxes has the encoder on the output shafts.

Encoders are sensitive to shaft end play & egocentricity. So make sure the shaft does not have a lot of float & is well aligned.

Splice longer wire to the provided encoder wire. Stranded Ethernet cable works. Cable is better than individual wires. Nothing bigger than 18 gauge. Try to keep the cable away from power wires especially motor power.