Thread: Sealed encoder group buy?
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Re: Sealed encoder group buy?
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Originally Posted by ttldomination View Post
I'm curious about how you guys could go about interfacing this piece into a design?

Would you pop on a chain and use this as an idler, or perhaps just design to gear it in?

- Sunny G.
This year, we used stock ballshifters, so we used the sub-optimal encoder setup with which those came.

Next year, I plan to incorporate the encoder mount into the first stage of our (custom) gearbox by extending the shaft out of the bearing, boring a slip-fit hole for the encoder shaft into it, cutting a 'x' pattern with a band saw, and then using a shaft collar to clamp the shaft in place. The top of the encoder will probably be held by a 3D-printed mount.