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Re: LabVIEW Encoder not reliably returning Rate

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Originally Posted by cabbagekid2 View Post
No one postd anything about having a lot of noise from the encodes so I figure I should ask again.....how does the signal from the encoders look? Ours looks extremely ugly. To the point where when we apply a median filer what we get out is almost half of the peak rpm being measured.
You can reduce the noise by using 1x decoding rather then 2x or 4x. This eliminates noise introduced by the phase error of the encoder.
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