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Re: Talon SRX Missing Encoder Counts in Labview

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Originally Posted by ozrien View Post
My experience with S4s is if the shaft isn't perfectly concentric the encoder might miss ticks. In other words if the encoder shaft is torqued at all, the encoder might miss a few ticks.

I found one bad encoder this year by just spinning the shaft with a drill and monitoring the output on an oscilloscope. With a fixed velocity you'd expect to see a pretty uniform waveform. On this bad one I saw gaps.
I think we've seen that problem too, hence why I am going to try and swap some out tomorrow. I think also, maybe try those MA3 analog rotary sensors. Those seem like they might be better. I noticed that firmware 1.4 is required to run an analog MA3 sensor, are the results pretty good with the upgrade?
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