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Re: Arduino and kop encoder

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Originally Posted by Michael Hill View Post
Oh, and I thought I'd caution you. There's a maximum read rate on the arduinos. It takes about 100 microseconds to take a reading, so it can read about 10,000 times/second. Since you're reading all 360 values every rotation, you've got a maximum of 27.78 rev/sec, or 1666.67 RPM. Not really sure what you're using it for, but keep that in mind.

are you sure its 1666? i went up to as high as 2000 multiple times in a row