Question about encoders to control motor

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10-04-2013, 10:26

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Re: Question about encoders to control motor

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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

You are already bang-bang controlling the motor anyway. That's how pulse width modulation works.

That's not strictly true. If the motor accepts a PWM signal directly, then in some cases you may control it that way, but the speed controller is what receives your pwm signal, and it adjusts the voltage out in proportion to the PWM duty cycle, the motor never sees the pwm on-off cycles.

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