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Re: Encoders on breakout board

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Originally Posted by Kherda View Post
I was just informed that we do use absolute optical encoders. Sorry for the confusion. What I meant by single wire encoder is running all 4 encoder wires on one 4-wire PWM (5v, gnd, A, B), instead splitting the encoder wires into two 3-pin PWMs (5v, gnd, A) and (5v, gnd, B) wires that go to separate 3-pin blocks. We'd then run two different DI/O signals to the A and B pins on one 4-pin plugin block.
I think you mean to say PWM cables. PWM is a type of control signal.
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