On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ralph Stirling wrote: > The AS5306 magnetic encoder module A and B outputs > will certainly connect to the the parallel port fine. You > can configure Hal to do quadrature decoding from the > parallel port, but your linear stage can't go very fast. > The AS5306 has 40 pulses / 2.4mm = 16.7 pulses/mm. > If I recall correctly, LinuxCNC can typically read maybe > a couple thousand pulses per second from a quadrature > encoder via the parallel port, so you would be limited to > ~100-200mm/sec in speed. >
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