On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:14:57 AM Andrew did opine: > 16 ذ؛ذ²ر–ر‚ذ½رڈ 2012 ر€. 15:09 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> ذ½ذ°ذ؟ذ¸رپذ°ذ²: > > On 16 April 2012 12:31, Andrew <parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does it make sense to connect the encoder right to 7i43 pins and look > > > > It is worth a try, as long as it is a 5V TTL single-ended encoder. > > > > Just did it. Perfect quadrature pulses > > http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6079/screenshothaloscillosco.png > And the position is correct, of course. That is much better. But are you turning the spindle by hand? That is still a very uneven speed, showing at least 6/1 diffs in speed in just a fraction of a revolution.
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