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Re: PID Velocity Control

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Originally Posted by RufflesRidge View Post
The Encoder Get VI has a Rate output at the bottom that takes care of quite a bit of that for you. The output is in pulses per second so you will have to scale appropriately if you want RPM.
For very high RPMs (such as a shooter wheel) you might be better off reading counts every 20ms and then scaling delta_counts to RPM.

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