Originally Posted by
bdillard
Thank you, but that confuses me even more. I am looking at the Tamagawa OIH35 series. Tamagawa has this encoder listed as an incremental encoder, but has it listed for brushless dc applications.
That is because it is probabally an incremental encoder with DC brushless commutation tracks. The commutation tracks are read by the amplifier and the encoder is used by the controller for positioning.
If you have DC brushed motors you don't have to worry about commutation, just the incremental part is all you use.
Al.
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