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Re: Control Shooter RPM with a Counter

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
If the OP had an encoder on his shooter, he wouldn't need a counter either. He could plug the encoder into the DSC and use that to control the wheel speed.
There's no way to have a Digital Sidecar do the same sort of offloaded closed-loop control that a Jaguar is capable of. The speed control would have to be done by the cRIO's program, based on feedback from the encoder. You can't read the encoder's value without opening a Counter (or an Encoder, which uses a Counter unless you ask for 4x decoding).
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