Shock Pots

[goncalv3]

Sorry if it's been posted but I couldn't find it with a search. For the guys running shock pots, what kind of mounting hardware and sensors are you using? Any dos and don'ts you have found out while mounting/configuring? I saw there are some different lengths depending on mounting solution and shock travel. I'm considering adding a set to my AIM system.

Thanks!

[SStadel]

Have Scott Rettich send you a picture of the shock pots on my old chassis #109. Jay Shuler of Brain Child Inc. did those for me.

[S Lathrop]

Decades ago I engineered for a Indy Lights team that mounted linear pots on the shock. There was a simple bracket that was held to the shock body with a hose clamp and to potentiometer with a tie wrap.

The top was mounted to a steel bracket that fit between the top of the spring and the spring retainer. The potentiometer had a rod end at the top (shaft end) and that fit over a dowel pin. A R clip retained the rod end.

I do not have a picture.

The down side of potentiometers is that they only have the motion that the shock has. as such, they don't have a lot of resolution compared to other systems of measuring shock motion, and they are relatively expensive to rotary pots that are gear driven.