Brother carousel encoders

unfortunately i dont have that info hand. it is probably in the tc229 thread.

Yup. there's files an info.. somewhere.. in there. haha.
I have not looked at the 229 stuff in 7 years sadly, so its all erased from my brain.

Hi ihavenofish,

I read through that entire thread, unfortunately I couldn't find anything specifically on the pinout. I think I am going to have to remove the ATC shroud and take a look at the board. Here are some relevant posts from that thread:

forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/32276...ure?start=360#172455
forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/32276...ure?start=470#258347
forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/32276...nture?start=10#87606
forum.linuxcnc.org/30-cnc-machines/32276...nture?start=60#96531

I did some more searching online, and stumbled on this Brother B521136-2 board. It's not labeled for a TC225, but it has what appears to be the same number of pins, so I might be able to at least look at this to cross reference to what I have. The harness I have is labeled as follows:

E - Green w/ Yellow Stripe
49 - White w/ Yellow Stripe
50 - White w/ Green Stripe
51 - Blue Solid
52 - White w/ Blue Stripe
53 - Yellow Solid
54 - White w/ Red Stripe
55 - Red Solid




I feel pretty good about setting up HAL to handle the four BCD encoder bits, the deceleration signal, and the limit switch swap; there is a ton of good information in your thread that I will certainly use as a starting point. When I got the machine, however, it was in mid-retrofit, and pretty much all of the original hardware is gone - the only thing left are the factory limit switches, the Oriental Motor SBR32-ZP brake pack, and the Oriental Motor gear motor.

Thanks,
Jeff

so on the 225 i still had the io board, so i just used the manuals pinouit on the control. so thats not gonna help.

I have some tc227 data though, ill dig an see if theres anything useful on the encoder - its mostly mechanical drawings.