Thread: Encoder Trouble
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Unread 03-02-2012, 20:46
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Re: Encoder Trouble

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Originally Posted by CRLS97 View Post
However, what happened is that it went from 0 to 0.003 something and back to 0, continually oscillating between the two whenever there was an output to the motor (and the shaft was actually spinning). At the bottom of the example the encoder alarm is always: "stopped" rather than moving.
This sounds like it isn't reading one of the channels, but is reading the other channel.
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