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Homing Cycle

A Homing Cycle is the movement of an incremental encoder to find its index. This is helpful upon power-up as without an index and homing cycle, the location within the encoder’s rotation cannot be determined. A homing cycle on a rotary encoder is completed by rotating the shaft until the index is detected. An encoder using this process is sometimes referred to as a Pseudo-Absolute Encoder.


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