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Originally Posted by craigboez
How did you guys mount these- just double stick tape, or did you 3d print a case, or something else?
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We bolt or pop-rivet them onto plate, with a hole cut out for the connector (or in our case, we remove the connectors and solder directly). Double stick tape like the 3M VHB could also work. We used to mount them this way before we had boards with mount holes in them. You can check out our 2014 robot
CAD to see exactly what we did if you are interested in more details.
Poprivets are nice because they are quick, but we will probably move to 4-40s exclusively next year because we can replace the boards if needed. We had two minor failures last year due to one of the wires breaking off on the end of our shooter (in-proper strain relieving in a high robot-to-robot contact area) and one of the boards being mounted too close to the magnet and getting damaged due to contact with the moving part. We ended up replacing the pop rivets with 4-40s when servicing these, so it would be nice to start with 4-40s.