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Truth about shaft encoders

The way shaft encoders really work is with ticks. They send ons and offs to the control system, and every tick (or on) that is sent to the RC would be a certain angle. So if an encoder could send 36 ticks per revolution then you would no that every tick recieved is 10 degrees. So if you could how many ticks have gone by you could easily know when one revolution has occured.
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