pic: Off-Season Kicker Design

[MCahoon]

Originally Posted by Ether

Isolating the pot from the shaft (via a chain or belt etc) is certainly a solution, but not the only way.

If you use the pot to replace one of the shaft bearings then of course that's going to put unacceptable loads on the pot. But if you mount the sensor directly to the shaft (through a simple coupling) on the outboard side of one of the end bearings it will not bear the shaft loads.

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Essentially what we did. We had a gear on the end of the winch shaft. That gear drove an idler shaft that had the pot attached to the end of it. The pot (and the encoder that replaced it) were not bearing any loading from the kicker.