Timeline for Limit Switch vs Rotary Encoder
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| Nov 1, 2023 at 23:34 | answer | added | Jens | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 15:49 | history | edited | JYelton | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Show thanks by voting on and accepting answers. |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 14:30 | comment | added | testing09 | Max will be around 3 revolutions- if I need an encoder, I'll mount it to the output shaft (low speed, high torque). Resolution can be course i.e. few degrees. | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 14:18 | comment | added | jonathanjo | Roughly how many revolutions apart are A and B? What sort of resolution is required? | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 14:08 | comment | added | testing09 | Yes, my use case is similar to a garage door. I've just realised actually that for my use case, I don't have access to the mechanism- the motor shaft is coupled to different mechanisms, where each mechanism generally has to travel a different distance between position A and B. Maybe I need some sort of shaft encoder then? | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 13:41 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | The motor drives some mechanism, no? Maybe it would make more sense to attach limit switches to the mechanism instead of trying to attach them to the motor shaft. If there is no "mechanism," then what is the significance of positions A and B? (E.G., my garage door opener has a motor that turns more than a hundred revolutions between the "open" and "closed" positions. It is stopped by limit switches that are attached to the track in which the door's wheels run.) | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 13:20 | history | edited | testing09 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 19 characters in body |
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| S Oct 30, 2023 at 12:49 | history | asked | testing09 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |