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14-02-2016, 17:48

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Re: Dual encoders

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Originally Posted by Ether

If you play your cards right, you can use the redundancy to reduce the effect of an encoder failure.

Does anyone actually do this in FRC? I had played around with the idea of constantly checking both encoders, and if one is consistently outputting zero (possibly indicative of faulty wiring), switch to the other one. Are there any other common failure modes that we could look for?

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