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Re: Minimum Flywheel Encoder CPR

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Originally Posted by fovea1959 View Post
I know it changes, but I still can't arrive at CPR = 3 (instead of the CPR = 12) ends up with "I'm working in RPM". I'm trying to understand why that works...
It depends on whether the advertised CPR is cycles per revolution or edges per revolution - these differ by a factor of 4.

The config method wants the former, despite all the native units being calculated using the latter.

Yes, this is confusing and bad and should be changed
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