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Originally Posted by TheHolyHades1
I'm sorry, I meant 24 pulse encoder. Additionally, I meant to find some gearing such that one turn of the steer motor would result in 360 pulses on the encoder, so we'd have 1 degree precision (I think?)
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To get 360 cycles on the encoder, you'd have to rotate it 15 times. That's a lot of wire twisting... and that thing is gonna get jerked around very rapidly.
from the web page:
"These rotary encoders rotate all the way around continuously, and are divided up into 24 'segments'. Each segment has a click-y feeling to it, and each movement clockwise or counter-clockwise causes the two switches to open and close."
Hmm. "Click-y feeling". Sounds mechanical. Not entirely clear from the description if this generates a quadrature signal. I'll take a peek at the datasheet...