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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296
Not sure how I feel about this one.
I would think the twisting slack the surgical tubing has would be a bad thing?
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There is a wood dowel inserted in the surgical tubing the entire length except for the ends that slip over the shafts.
We normally mount the encoder right next to the shaft, so the surgical tube length is very small.
This year we couldn't do this because our CIMs were mounted close together, and we couldn't fit the encoder between them. We borrowed the wood dowel workaround from 188, who had done this a few years prior. I was skeptical at first, but when the guys at 188 said it ended up working great, we went ahead with it too. In our implementation, the encoders are held in place by a floating encoder mount. It uses the cylindrical shape of the CIMs, the fact that the encoders are to big to fit between the CIMs, and the slight tension from the surgical tubing to hold the encoders in place.
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