What do you want to use the direction for?

If you are using the jogwheel as a jogwheel, you don't need direction at all.
LinuxCNC's motion module handles that.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017, at 04:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I note the encoder module does  not specifically have a "direction" 
> output. Is it sufficient to run the velocity thru a wcomp, compare to 
> 0.0000, and use the over/under pins for multiswitche's direction to 
> count? Seems like it ought to work so I'll hack up some more hal code. 
> That will need an and2 to gate it of course to when the button is 
> pushed.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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