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Originally Posted by Dmitri

...Digi-Key is out of the detentless Grayhill mechanical encoders that we planned to use for autonomous. Would the detents wear the switch out far too quickly if used on the bot? Does it matter if the encoder also has a switch? Thanks for all your replies.

We also noticed that Digi-Key is out of stock of pretty much any workable encoders. Newark has lots of encoders in stock. Thats where we got ours. Btw i would't use encoders with detents. These are all meant for human interface applications (knobs), and arn't really rated for what you are using them for.