Thread: Gryo Connection
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Re: Gryo Connection

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
Can you describe what signal you are getting and show us your code?

It is also possible that you received one of the units that had the labels for Rate and Temp swapped, but I believe those came with notes clarifying the mistake.
The signal was pretty constant with a bit of noise, around 10 mV. It peaked at ~0 and ~20mV.

This has been tested with 2 of the 2009 kit gyros. Both produced similar results. We borrowed another local team's unit to test with, so if a bad batch (reversed R/T labeling) was sent to our regional kickoff, that could be the issue.

As Eric stated above, we tested this with the sample gyro code in LabView and using C++. The accumulator for the gyro angle was going through the roof, which matches up with the relatively low signal. I am almost certain this is not a code issue.

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