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Re: Wheel-speed opto-couples

To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Wheel-speed opto-couples
From: Cindy Wong <wongci@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:24:35 -0500 (EST)
Cc: wongci@ecf.toronto.edu, vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu,poonj@ecf.toronto.edu
Delivered-to: hoek@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: <20000130010158.A54558@mad>


> [This mostly concerns Cindy].
> 
> As currently written, moving the wheels in increments of 2cm is
> meaningful to the computer.  Small increments such as this are
> particularly relevant when Zeta is turning.  Ideally, the large wheels
> that pulse the opto-couples on/off will be large enough for them to
> distinguish increments of < 2cm.

ie the opto-couples wheel would be better if it had more holes to increase
the number of pulses?

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