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Re: Best way to measure period between pulses? Counters and FPGA

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Originally Posted by nightpool View Post
Doesn't that mean it wouldn't be able to tell if the wheel is actually stopped?
Oh, yeah. Basically it will continue returning some higher speed that represents the last valid transition even though the wheel may have stopped some time earlier.

So we probably need to decide some happy medium rotational velocity that we want to control and set the period accordingly.

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