The Best Encoders for Drivetrain

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Originally Posted by Owen Busler

For those of you using the Grayhill 63R, how do you connect your shafts to the encoder?

Just making sure im looking at the right one

http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/...R256.aspx?IM=0

I can second the surgical tubing and zipties method. We used this method to successfully mate the encoder shaft to the drive gearbox output shaft. We also found a way to use surgical tubing to mate the encoder shaft to a 1/2" hex shaft. We inserted thinner surgical tubing which snugly fit over the encoder shaft inside of a thicker piece of surgical tubing which snugly fit over the 1/2" hex shaft. Then we just used a bunch of zipties to hold the whole thing together and so far its been working perfectly.