{"id":3271,"date":"2014-09-05T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:42:37","slug":"3271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3271","title":{"rendered":"Motion Encoder does not measure distances over 1.2 meters."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>If you are using the <a href=\"\/product\/motion-encoder-cart\/\">Motion Encoder Cart<\/a> (<nobr>DTS-CART-MEC<\/nobr>) on a long 2.2 m track, you will need to adjust the emitter to the 2\u00a0m setting. The switch is located directly under the tab used to open the battery compartment.<\/p>\n<p>The IR transmitter on the cart has two power levels available. The default 1 m setting conserves battery power. If the cart is used on a 2.2 m track, set the cart to the higher 2 m power level. If this setting is not used, the receiver will not reliably sense the position of the cart at the far end of the track.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/PXL_20250829_152453518-381x285.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Information<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/3153\/\">Motion Encoder System Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/4285\/\">Encoder Cart only reads to about 10 cm.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using the on a long 2.2 m track, you will need to adjust the emitter to the 2\u00a0m setting. The switch is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5354],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-vds-ec"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}