Disable Encoders Problem

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by TimCraig

Just disable the interrupts the encoder is attached to. The encoder will continue to generate the signal but the processor will ignore it and the interrupt routine will not be executed.

Tim,

I would still recommend that he comment out the #defines in the header file. Doing so would both disable irrelevant interrupts, and eliminate code that won't be called anyway from the hex file.

[TimCraig]

Originally Posted by Abwehr

Tim,

I would still recommend that he comment out the #defines in the header file. Doing so would both disable irrelevant interrupts, and eliminate code that won't be called anyway from the hex file.

When he said he wanted to disable an inactive encoder, I took it to mean the encoder was to be active for a while, possibly during autonomous, and then be disabled, not that the encoder was totally absent.