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Re: Limitless Potentiometers

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Originally Posted by sumadin View Post
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I'm wondering how you would tell what direction you moved. I don't doubt this can work very well for something that only goes under a revolution. However, let's say you moved from 100 degrees to 200. How do you know if you moved 100 forwards or 260 back?

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You choose a sampling rate such that you can never move more then 180 degrees per sample. If you see a change less then 180, you're moving forward, if you see a change greater then 180, you're moving back.

We used continuous turn pots for our drive last year very successfully. We followed the directions in this white paper: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1743