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Re: How are teams mounting drivetrain encoders on WCD?

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Originally Posted by ollien View Post
While my team has not built a WCD, I just want to say that I cannot recommend the CIMCoder. 2/4 of ours stopped functioning by competition season and I have heard of their shells cracking in high vibration applications.

YMMV

The method I have heard most commonly is mounting something to the output shaft of the gearbox, using something like an SRX Mag Encoder.
The one thing I have against mounting to the output shaft is that it removes our ability to convert to a dogshifter or ballshifter
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