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Re: 2012 FRC Team 1717 Uncut

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Originally Posted by JamesTerm View Post
When you say light sensor do you mean optical encoder?
He may just mean a light sensor (like a Banner sensor, or a 2011 KOP line sensor) being used as a digital tachometer with a piece of reflective tape or a photogate. Nothing to "encode" (in a quadrature sense), since your wheel generally isn't changing the direction that it rotates.