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Re: Programming US Digital Encoder

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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
Remember that the encoder is always in 4x mode, which means that 1 rotation of the shaft is 1440 pulses is using a 360 CPR encoder. Moving from 0 to 270 is only moving the output shaft about 80 degrees. Is that what you want?
Can you explain how you came up with 80 degrees?


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Originally Posted by ozrien View Post

Just curious how did you hookup the encoder to the motor mechanically. I mean what's the gear ratio between the two?
So for testing I have it hooked up to a super shifter. On the actual robot we will have it on a planetary gearbox which is 16:1 I believe
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