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Re: Limitless Potentiometers

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
Sure, I'll offer some advice. Don't put any mechanical load on a potentiometer shaft.

Here's how we got around the problem.

And our shaft encoders were coupled to the transmission shafts with a piece of surgical tubing.
Very interesting... so how exactly did this work?? was the sergical tubing just attached to the output shaft the immediately attached to the sensor so there was very minimal drag??

I am very interested in how you did this?!?!