Rotary Encoder Parallax #27805

Wildatheart

I have a need to disassemble this encoder to remove the shaft detents. Is it reasonable to think that after the detent nubs have been filed off and the encoder is reassembled, a functional product would result? Or will I run into an internal alignment problem? They're cheap enough to experiment but I have only 1 at this time.

PJAllen

It's a mechanical encoder.
It's clunking switches inside it.

You must be looking for an optical encoder.

Duane Degn

How are you going to use the encoder? What's your end goal?

I'm not sure if the encoder would survive the surgery but there has got to be a better way of doing what you want to accomplish.

The encoder is good for 100,000 cycles which sounds like a lot, but if you attach it to a motor, you could wear it out in a couple of days.

I'm sure they make encoders without the detents. If you tell use what your want to do, we could probably find you a better solution than modify the encoder you have.

PJAllen

http://www.nubotics.com/products/ww12/index.html

http://parallax.com/product/29321

erco

Twofer $20: http://www.vexrobotics.com/276-2156.html

And occasionally twofer $10: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-VEX-ROBOTICS-OPTICAL-SHAFT-ENCODERS-/111130203707?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19dfe0563b

Duane Degn

The encoders erco recently pushed on us forum members work really well. I wouldn't be hard to roll your own quadrature encoder with a pair of Hamamatsu P5587 sensors.