{"id":69,"date":"2009-11-13T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:42:18","slug":"replacement-encoder-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/replacement-encoder-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement encoder works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Replacement encoder arrived today.\u00a0 Checked it out to make sure everything works.\u00a0 A and B signals are fine.\u00a0 Found out there is no Z signal, but I really don\u2019t need it anyway.\u00a0 It is interesting to look at the guts of the encoder &#8211; obviously older technology than the other encoders.\u00a0 Replaced the short cable with the last piece of my ethernet cable.\u00a0 This time I was a little smarter and left about two inches of the old wires and just soldered new wires to old wires, then put a heat shrink tubes over the joints.\u00a0 I coiled up the extra wire inside the encoder case &#8211; it was a tight fit.\u00a0 One amazing thing &#8211; the mounting holes in the new encoder are the exact same size and location as the old encoder.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to drill any new holes in the brackets to mount it.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a couple of pictures of what the cart looks like so far.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t drilled all the holes for the bracket yet, but you can get a pretty good idea of what the final version will look like.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Cart-Closeup-Top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"Cart Closeup Top\" src=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Cart-Closeup-Top.jpg\" alt=\"Cart - Top View\" width=\"291\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cart - Top View<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Cart-Closeup-Bottom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5   \" title=\"Cart Closeup Bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Cart-Closeup-Bottom.jpg\" alt=\"Cart - bottom view\" width=\"252\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cart - Bottom View<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacement encoder arrived today.\u00a0 Checked it out to make sure everything works.\u00a0 A and B signals are fine.\u00a0 Found out there is no Z signal, but I really don\u2019t need it anyway.\u00a0 It is interesting to look at the guts of the encoder &#8211; obviously older technology than the other encoders.\u00a0 Replaced the short cable [&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-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}