Embodiments of soft latching solenoids comprise a coil assembly ; a plunger assembly ; at least one flux conductor comprising a flux circuit. A series of corresponding bits are recovered based upon the series of incoming symbols. A multiplexer controller is triggered by an input trigger signal to instruct the multiplexer to sequentially connect the input channels and the additional input channel to the output channel according to a predetermined voltage detection sequence. The blade is fixably rotatable about an axis normal to the longitudinal axis of the arm to which it is connected.