Switch display encoder apparatus

Abstract

A sensing system connects to a switch display encoder apparatus and monitors the rotational speed of a plurality of encoders in all directions independently and responds to rate-aided commands issued to the user or by a Central Processing Unit (CPU). As the encoders spin in any direction, a quadrature output signal is sent from each encoder to the sensing system which processes the raw quadrature data and transmits, via an output controller, a rate-aided signal to the CPU. The CPU can interactively issue commands to the system which changes the speed thresholds and rate-aided speed threshholds and rate-aided outputs via switches mounted on the apparatus. Parameter settings are transmitted to the sensing system and to the external CPU. The apparatus contains numeric displays that indicate switch selected or CPU instructed speed thresholds, rate-aid multipliers, or rate-aid dividers.

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