Low Res Optical Encoders for Speed Control

[KrazyCarl92]

Originally Posted by BornaE

also, I am not sure how much to be worried about the singal integrity over the 7 feet of wire that the students had wired next to all other wires. including the 20kHz jaguar output wires going to the motors.

I know we found a way to insolate the wire from interference and we were +/- close to 100 rpm before. After, we got it to +/- 1 rpm. I'll talk to the guys who did that and see what they actually did; I think it had some metal foil involved, so perhaps there was a faraday cage effect?