Thread: pic: How do you put an encoder on the FP Gearbox?
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Unread 06-06-2006, 12:39
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Re: pic: How do you put an encoder on the FP Gearbox?
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Originally Posted by Richard
Nicely done, JV.

Since you had to cut the gearcase anyway, wouldn't it have been easier to mount a geartooth sensor near the motor pinion and just measure the electrical frequency of its signal?
Gear tooth sensors only work on gears made from ferrous metals. Fisher price gears are plastic.

EDIT: Oops, I guess I didn't read the post carefully enough.
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