Kit opto encoder resolution?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Ether

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered elsewhere; if so I haven't found it yet:

Per the above explanation, if 1x is reading only one channel, it wouldn't know which way the encoder is spinning, right? So the rate information with 1x wouldn't tell you whether the rate is positive or negative, right?

So if you wanted a rate that contained direction information, would you have to use the 4x?

There was a long thread (maybe last off-season) that went into a lot of detail about the encoder algorithm.

The 1x, 2x, and 4x only denotes how often measurements are made, the method of measurement is the same. In 1x, 2x, and 4x, the state of the opposite channel is used to determine direction.