Today was a bad day.\u00a0 I decided to replace the cables on the encoders today.\u00a0 Heated up the soldering iron and got to work.\u00a0 Removed all the wires from the first encoder, then attached the new wires.\u00a0 After reassembling everything, I noticed it was very difficult to turn the encoder during about half of each revolution.\u00a0 Since it was the one I tested with the motor, I thought maybe I had bent the shaft due to a misalignment of the gears or something.\u00a0 Resigned myself to the possibility of needing to purchase a replacement encoder.\u00a0 Started on the second encoder a little later in the day.\u00a0 Removed all the old wires, then noticed it was difficult to turn the shaft on this encoder also.\u00a0 What I hadn\u2019t realized on the first one was that the glass disk for encoder is directly underneath the circuit board.\u00a0 When the solder was heated up and melted, it formed a large bead on the back of the circuit board which is now rubbing against the encoder disk.\u00a0 Both encoders are ruined unless I can find a way to fix them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was a bad day.\u00a0 I decided to replace the cables on the encoders today.\u00a0 Heated up the soldering iron and got to work.\u00a0 Removed all the wires from the first encoder, then attached the new wires.\u00a0 After reassembling everything, I noticed it was very difficult to turn the encoder during about half of each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}