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Re: LabVIEW Encoder not reliably returning Rate

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Originally Posted by Ryan Gordon View Post
Distance is just an integration of rate; If distance works then rate must work too, right? Or more clearly written, if rate doesn't work then distance won't work either.
If you look back at the first post, the issue with calculating rate is that the encoder returns an elapsed time of inf.
It appears that rate is calculated from differentiating distance, not the other way around.
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