Wow JAZZCNC thank you for all of your effort, you are a wealth of information. I really appreciate the time.
I just can't grasp the concept of how what ever is reading the info from the encoder knows weather it's coming from a rotary or a linear encoder. If the motor makes one revolution and the rotary encoder translates that it has moved 5 mm's or if it did one revolution and the linear encoder translates that it moved 5 mm's why should that make any difference? I can't seem to grasp why the encoder type would make a difference.