Mounting the Lynxmotion Quadrature Motor Encoder V2 Product Code: RB-Lyn-929 to GHM-16 (w/ rear shaft) RB-Hsi-05 motor
Are there instructions for mounting these encoders. I did go to the USDigital site and found some but they are not exactly the same as the encoder kit you sent to attach to the GHM-16 motor. The main problem is that the Encoder assembly does not have a secure way to mount to the motor.
Steps:
Note: The motor does not have mounting whole for encoder housing. So the next best thing would be something like:
1, Secure small (~1/16 inch) rubber spacer to motor housing by using the double sided tape on the spacer. Note that it does not appear that the small spacer has double sided tape on both sides (this would help).
2. Then place the ~1.8 inch plastic spacer on top of small spacer.
3. The place bottom of encoder housing on 1/8” spacer.
4. You can now push through the 2 small screws through the housing and spacers but they cannot be secured. Just sort of floating there.
5. Now you can add the encoder PC card into the bottom of the housing.
6. Then press the encoder disk onto the shaft of the motor
7. Press the top of the housing onto the the bottom housing.
8. This is all well and good, except encoder is not really secured to motor. Perhaps if there were more double sided tape on spacers??? Now I only simulated these steps….
9. Finally the USdigital mentions centering and spacer tools. Do you have them, are they really needed?
Help!
