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Re: Team Update #18

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Originally Posted by colt527 View Post
As long as 1 of those contact points is hit for enough time for FMS to read the signal it will trigger.
There's the rub. How does FMS read the signal. What if FMS is busy doing something else when the switch is hit?

What are the wires from the switches attached to?

Are they generating an interrupt and being time-stamped? Is that happening locally and the information stored so that FMS can read it when it gets a chance?

The engineer in me wants to know.


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