The Best Encoders for Drivetrain

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Originally Posted by SJaladi

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.

Dumb newbie question: So what would be the best way to add one (okay, actually two) of these to a kit bot? Any special mounting needed? Thanks!