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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
It was actually made to fit last year's Banebots KoP transmission (which had mounting holes for it).
Word of warning though. Unless you pre-plan the mount strategy and carefully machine your mounting surface to have the mounting holes EXACTLY where they need to be, you will encounter problems. 116 attempted to use these on our 1/2" drive axles last year, and encountered a number of problems with mounting them. I'd highly suggest carefully machining your mounting plate, if not CNCing it.
I have not heard any complaints about these when used with the Banebots transmissions they were intended for though.
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Yes they work well when mounted properly. Our team, however, machines to a precision of .25 inches which isn't good enough for these. Last year the Banebot transmissions had the mounting holes for these encoders, but the output shaft axial play was greater than the gap for the encoder wheel. We killed a few encoders. But if you can get them mounted and positioned correctly on this year's transmission, they will work well. Try to avoid using an adjustable mount strategy unless you can be sure it won't move once you get it straight. The only thing worse than having no encoders is having unreliable encoders.