On 11/11/2015 12:23 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 11 November 2015 at 16:32, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's basically a crankshaft position sensor. > Some CPSes use a magnetic track (I have a few in a drawer). > They typically use a missing tooth (normally just a shorter tooth, > when it is a tooth) for index. > It would be nice to add missing-tooth index to the linuxcnc encoder. > >> The gear pitch needed is .160 so at full quad the resolution should be >> .040 or about a mm. There is a data sheet link on the Allied >> Electronics page. > You will get a distorted but usable quadrature for quite a range > around that, however.
> >>Some CPSes use a magnetic track (I have a few in a drawer). That does not surprise me at all. I was wondering if Honeywell hadn't already sent you a few samples of that part. :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
