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Re: Talon SRX Encoder Breakout

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Originally Posted by FrankJ View Post
The reason to run the encoder to the talon is the same for the Jags. You would run the PID in the Talon. Otherwise you would run the encoder into the RoboRio.
Also, because you can get the raw encoder values at any time, you can plug the encoder into the talon, then still do the PID calculation on the roboRIO. This has some interesting use cases, and could both simplify wiring, and require less IO's to be used for encoders.
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