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01-03-2012, 17:30

ProgrammerMatt ProgrammerMatt is offline

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Re: RPM calculator

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Originally Posted by lineskier

Get rate is not ideal.

We store a last time variable.

Take counter.getdistance / (current time - last time)

Then reset the counter.

You will get a much stabler speed this way

this is straight out of the encoder class

Code:

     * Get the current rate of the encoder.
     * Units are distance per second as scaled by the value from setDistancePerPulse().

its practically the same as current time - last time

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