{"id":59,"date":"2009-11-04T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:30:35","slug":"encoder-repair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/encoder-repair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Encoder Repair #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realized that the original bad encoder (#1) probably has a working LED, while the encoder I broke (#2) has everything but a working LED.\u00a0 Thought maybe I could move all the working components from #2 to the case of #1.\u00a0 Started by removing the retaining ring on #1, then pounding the shaft out of the bearings.\u00a0 Managed to remove the shaft, then the two ball bearings supporting the shaft.\u00a0 At this point, realized there was no way we could get the shaft with the glass encoder disk out of #2 and into #1 without destroying the glass, which is very thin.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered several different infrared LEDs from Digikey for about $5.\u00a0 Hoping one of them will work with the broken encoder.\u00a0 Not sure if the light needs to go through the lens or if the LED can be close to the sensor.\u00a0 This is a last ditch effort, but I really can\u2019t lose for just $5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realized that the original bad encoder (#1) probably has a working LED, while the encoder I broke (#2) has everything but a working LED.\u00a0 Thought maybe I could move all the working components from #2 to the case of #1.\u00a0 Started by removing the retaining ring on #1, then pounding the shaft out of the [&hellip;]<\/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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}