I'm going to buy a genuine omron encoder. I think a lot of my problems are with these cheap knock offs. All of the ones I have opened don't have an encoder wheel inside. Iv no idea how it's able to get the signal accurately. See pic attached of one of them.
So how does the Z index pin work with the ec500. I have A and B working and connected to the WHA and WHB of the MPG bypassing the opticouplers. If I want to attach the Z from the encoder what pin does this connect to? Will I have to bypass another opticoupler?
is that actually a magnetic encoder under the hood? wow
cant comment on the ec500 hardware, but you can check if your z is actually working by opening up halshow and turning on the index-enable signal and rotating the encoder. it should reset the encoder revs to 0 if index turns on, and then the index-enable signal will turn off. sometimes z doesnt show up well in halshow
They are a copy of the e6b2 omron encoders. There is no way to tell if it's magnetic or optical. It seems there are good copies which are dual boards with encoder wheels inside but there's no way of telling.
