Chris Morley wrote:
> Analog glass scales signals can be divided with off the shelf (or cheaper off 
> ebay) components. I have a heidenhain encoder that by its self has resolution 
> of aprox (its metric) .0005 inches then I have a box that divides by 5 for 
> aprox .0001 inches. The box also converts to square waves signals.Those are 
> common. I have seen others that divide by ten (on ebay) and u can buy others 
> that divide by up to at least 256. and encoders come in different resolution 
> and accuracy . That being a good point that resolution and accuracy are not 
> the same. The right type of scale can be matched to have close to the same 
> thermal growth as the machine does.
> just info I have gathered.
This is only true for scales with analog (sine wave) output.

Jon

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