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Re: Designing with sensors

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Originally Posted by Munchskull View Post
Pictures of how you mounted these would be great. Last year we had issues of the entire POT rotating at times.

Luckily (in this case) we use the Victor SP and not Talon SRXs.



How well does this actually work? The last trick like this I tried was using hot glue and it was terrible. Right now I am leaning towards drilling and tapping the shaft for using set screws.
We used a lathe to bore a 1/4" hole into the end of the 1/2" hex shaft our arm was rotating on, we then slotted it on the 6 sides of the 1/2" hex shaft by making 3 cuts straight across, and finally added a collar clamp to tighten the end of the hex shaft after the encoder shaft was inserted. We simply used 2x2 angle to mount the POT in place.

If you're interested I could take pictures next time I'm up at the shop.
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