On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > We were discussing this last year, perhaps I'm being pedantic but I would > note that while, as you say, there is commonality of principle in use of > induction and the selective weave to represent the data, TROS and core rope > (of the sort used in the AGC) also have differences in their principles of > operation - they're not just physical variations on each other.
My understanding is that both used drive lines that either went through the transformer, or around it, to either couple a drive line to a sense line, or not. In the case of CRM, the wires are essentially braided with the cores, while in TROS, holes are punched in strips of flex circuit to break one of the two paths the drive line can take for each sense position, and the transformer core is a two-part rectangular thing rather than a little toroid. If I'm wrong, or missing some fine point distinguishing them, I'd welcome corrections or additional information.
