# The Blue Smoke Herder Shield - AKA the New Maslow Shield (TLE5206)

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**Created:** [July 31, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/the-blue-smoke-herder-shield-aka-the-new-maslow-shield-tle5206/5322 "2018-07-31T09:12:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/the-blue-smoke-herder-shield-aka-the-new-maslow-shield-tle5206/5322/251 "2019-04-12T22:45:50Z")

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it’s 16 pulses for A and 16 pulses for B, offset from each other, so there are  
16 \* 4 edges

so it would be 131 \* 16 \* 4 = 8384 encoder steps per revolution.

David Lang

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