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Re: Encoders for 2015 Season

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Originally Posted by ozrien View Post
That's an interesting idea.

With a custom breakout/cable you could wire out both the potentiometer and quadrature encoder for each wheel for each Talon SRX (since SRX decodes both at the same time and puts both on CAN bus).
That's a complicated mess though. Mounting one of these widgets is bad enough. I really just want someone to start selling 3.3v absolute encoders instead of 5v ones.

We are already building a custom breakout to do the conversion... it's just extra circuitry that I'd love to get rid of.