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Re: Using Proxy Switch to Calculate RPM

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Originally Posted by zero118 View Post
Also, i thought I should use the reset function because I wanted to find a relatively instantaneous rpm, which is also the reason I wanted to calculated the rpm every second using the time tasks VI. I thought if i didn't reset the counter, it would give me an average rpm, which would not be very useful. Am I interpreting it wrong?
You are interpreting it correctly. You need the reset* if you're doing your way. You don't need the reset if you do it the other way (get the elapsed time between counts).



* or instead of reset you could use a feedback node to subtract the previous reading