Homemade Pendant Encoder control....

[SamMarrocco]

I would like to add a Pendant/Encoder Knob to my vb.net/KFlop applications. I'd like to get the most real-time control possible for jogging and axis from the wheel. I suspect that reading the knob via custom hardware->USB->vb.net than sending commands to the KFlop is *not* going to get me anywhere near time control. This leads me to believe that I would need a KFlop C program running in one of the available threads to read some KFlop IO pins and then send the appropriate movement to the KFlop. The encoder knob has connections for A and B (as well ad Vcc and Gnd).

Assuming this is the best method for what I'm attempting to do, any example code or specific docs available for doing this?

[TomKerekes]

Hi Sam,

That is correct see here and let us know if you have questions.

[SamMarrocco]

Thank you for the link, Tom.