On 04/08/2017 11:52 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > Some place inside that encoder is a normal quadrature signal. Likely > right at the phototransistor. If you could find it and buffer it > then you have a conventional motor that is easy to interface. Well, in the case of the Fanuc serial encoders, the raw quadrature is a sine wave of much lower resolution. The encoder chip interpolates that up by a factor of 16 to 500. Also, these are AC motors, so you need a commutation output as well as the quadrature.
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