2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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19-08-2014, 14:47

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Re: 2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

What about adding in limit switches to your mechanism to detect max travel distance and calibrate the encoder on the fly?

Edge detection isn't handled nicely currently, so the precision of that is not great.

Considering encoders are pretty industry standard, the real (and completely achievable solution) is just to not lose counts.

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