Testing and Cause of Failure for Encoders and Hall Effect sensors

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by ChrisH

The problem with pots was that they only give 255 "clicks" and we needed 540 to get the resolution we wanted.

The RC analog input is ten bits, giving 1024 steps. The simple definitions in the default code throw away two bits of resolution in order to emulate the pre-2004 system, but the full range of values is available just as easily.