Rotary and linear optical encoders are common in position and motion sensing.

January 11, 2017 Rotary encoders are great devices. Monitoring just a few pins you can easily and quickly read in rotation and direction of a user input (as well as many other applications).

We were using reflectance sensors. Either way there’s a trick to detecting which direction a rotary encoder is turning. We’ll explain that for you after the break.

IXARC absolute optical rotary encoders with EtherCAT offer outstanding measurement performance, including resolution of up to 65,536 steps per turn (16 bits). Multi-turn models with measuring ranges ...

Encoder technologies abound, but software, wiring, and embedded microprocessors let designers tailor magnetic-encoder performance to application requirements.

As the demand for functionally safe equipment products grows, so does Heidenhain’s component product offerings. Now new to the market are Heidenhain’s ROx 400 absolute rotary encoders, available in a ...

Today, there are a large number of different digital rotary encoders, which are used to measure the angle of any rotating object with high accuracy and convert this information into a digital code ...