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Re: Encoders for 2015 Season

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Originally Posted by mman1506 View Post
You are correct, they interface mechanically exactly like a pot would. Here is a pic of two grayhills 971 has on their bot https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f...52841%2529.JPG .
What's really great about the greyhills is that the shaft is supported by a ball bearing so they are MUCH more tolerable tolerable to axial and radial load than the commonly used US digital encoders.
Us digital does have shaft based encoders as well.