The LEDs came in today.\u00a0 I soldered a resistor onto the positive lead of each LED so they would work properly with a 5 V power supply.\u00a0 I connected each LED and tried waving it in front of the encoder sensor.\u00a0 All of the LEDs managed to make the digital signal flicker, so it looks promising.\u00a0 The problem is that none of them was consistent.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t get a good steady signal on both A and B channels at the same time.\u00a0 I suspect if I drilled a hole in the side of the encoder where the old LED is, I could put a new LED in the same spot and it might work.\u00a0 The light would have space to spread out and go through the lens and be focused on the sensor.\u00a0 Drilling through the side of the encoder would be a little risky, though.\u00a0 I am leaning towards just getting a new encoder if I can get one at a reasonable price.\u00a0 Most of the ones on ebay are priced higher than I am willing to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The LEDs came in today.\u00a0 I soldered a resistor onto the positive lead of each LED so they would work properly with a 5 V power supply.\u00a0 I connected each LED and tried waving it in front of the encoder sensor.\u00a0 All of the LEDs managed to make the digital signal flicker, so it looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}