ATC with carousel.comp and M6 remap

Andy, thank you very much again. I did a bunch of reading this morning and I think I am getting closer to understanding stuff.
I hope to now understand the encoding mode index. I will make a mockup at home (easy enough to do).

As far as encoding=gray is concerned, a few questions remain:
-I understand that carousel takes care of reading the input of the sense pins; no messing about with mux15 or mux_generic required, correct?
-You wrote: "16 tools is 4 sensor + strobe". I understand the 4 sensors are for the pocket itself. When does strobe come into play? Is the strobe used to indicate where exactly the pickup position is (e.g. in the centre of the pocket, whereas the encoding covers a larger band) (see attached drawing)

-Say we do not have a carousel but rather a chain with pockets attached to brackets. At the back of each pocket, there is the encoding stuff for the four sensors (4 stripes in the drawing). As the pockets are mounted to the outside of a chain, they separated from each other. This means that there is no continuous strip for the encoder pins and hence there will be a signal "0" across all pins. Can this be dealt with by carousel? Or would this require dealing with the signal input through a mux and sending in the current pocket number using another encoding mode? If so, which?


As always, thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards
Guido

Faster than lightning! Thank you so much.

Now onto planning how to actually build stuff. I was mostly set on a rack style, but I’ll guess I will reconsider another design in the long run. Can’t wait to give this a try.

I will try to remember to report on this:).