Thread: Swerve drives
View Single Post
  #25   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 19-04-2014, 17:26
ekapalka's Avatar
ekapalka ekapalka is offline
Registered User
FRC #3216
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Bermuda
Posts: 277
ekapalka has a spectacular aura aboutekapalka has a spectacular aura about
Re: Swerve drives

Quote:
Originally Posted by mman1506 View Post
Any tips for preventing the tiny wire on the connectors breaking?
We connected ours by simply removing one wire (and 1/4 of the connector itself) from one of the 4 wire connectors that we had acquired for our OEM encoders (because we bought the 3 pin analogue versions). We've never had any problems with this setup, but we probably would have been better off with one designed for this task. We also cut the top off of a Mountain Dew bottle and used it to shield the sensor because it was located a bit precariously