Setting direction of encoder

Hi, all.

I've replaced the mounting of the spindle encoder on my lathe and now the encoder spins in the opposite direction of my spindle. How can I change the direction in LinuxCNC/PathPilot? Or doesn't it matter? None of the the explanations or examples mention direction of the encoder, just the spindle direction. When I go to Status, the encoder count is showing negative numbers right now.

Br,
Stig

There are many ways. If the encoder signal wires are double ended you can invert either one of the A or B signals by swapping the A+ and A- wires. For single ended signals swap the A and B wires. Another solution is to leave the wiring alone and make the encoder scale negative.

Thank you.

I don't want to swap the wires, as that will probably only cause confusion later.
I thought about if I could set something, like scale, negative or inverted, but I didn't find any information about it in my searches. I'll set scale to negative as I think that is the best solution.

I would agree with @Todd Zuercher and swap the A/B wires.

if you now have the need to to change the scale to negative the wires must have been swapped accidentally as you now have B->A instead A->B (that's B leading A instead of A leading on the input. if you change the config then in the future you go to wire your encoder with normal A-> you'll have to remove the inversion in the config again.

fixing hardware issue is IMHO always preferred to hiding it in software.

it is your machine so of course do what you want. just stating my opinion

The other thing that could happen is the orientation of the encoder change so it’s spinning the opposite direction

Hi, smgvbest.

No, no wires were swapped for the encoder and A is wired to A and B is wired to B.

Previously, a gear on the encoder meshed with an intermediate gear which meshed with the gear on the spindle, and this made a lot of noise. I have now redone the installation so that the gear on the spindle meshes with an intermediate gear which has a toothed pulley going to a toothed pulley on the encoder, so while previously the encoder rotated in the same direction as the spindle, it is now rotating in the opposite direction of the spindle. Hence the need to change the direction of the encoder in PP, and for this I believe changing the sign of Scale is the correct way to go.