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Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins
Date 2013-09-25 09:52 +0300
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On 25.9.13 3:32 , j.m.granville@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:42:25 AM UTC+12, pozz wrote:
>> The rotation speed could change. When it is slow, the complete pulse
>> width could be up to 15-20ms, where the last part (about 3-5ms) is
>> composed by many bouncing oscillations.
>>
>> When the rotation is fast, the complete pulse width is about 1-2ms and
>> the boucing oscillations takes about 2-3ms.
>
> Notice that your bounce time, is above your closure time, which makes reliable sensing more of a lottery, than engineering.
>
> That said, since you seem to be able to tolerate false positives (wrong speed values) there are things you can do, as you push switches to their limits.
>
> a) As you use 3 terminal Microswitches, rewire them to switch between Vcc and GND and operate no load (or a pin-keep load) on the Sense side.


The canonical way of doing this is to feed a S-R flipflop with the
microswitch contacts (n/o to S and n/c to R). The flipflop toggles
at first touch on each side. As long as both sides do not bounce
together, this gives clean pulses to whatever is reading.

-- 

Tauno Voipio

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Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 23:42 +0200
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2013-09-23 15:00 -0700
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-23 16:12 -0700
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-23 18:45 -0700
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2013-09-24 08:06 +0200
      Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 00:37 -0700
        Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2013-09-24 10:24 +0200
          Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-24 02:05 -0700
            Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2013-09-24 11:01 +0200
          Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 09:55 -0700
            Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2013-09-24 18:13 +0100
              Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 11:03 -0700
            Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2013-09-24 19:38 +0200
              Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 11:13 -0700
                Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Arlet Ottens <usenet+5@c-scape.nl> - 2013-09-24 20:30 +0200
                Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-09-24 21:20 +0100
                Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 16:08 -0700
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 00:34 -0700
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2013-09-24 04:31 +0000
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-09-24 11:15 +0100
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2013-09-24 15:51 +0100
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 00:33 +0200
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 16:36 -0700
      Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 07:39 +0200
        Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-24 23:37 -0700
          Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2013-09-27 15:54 +0200
            Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-27 12:35 -0700
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2013-09-24 16:43 -0700
  Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins j.m.granville@gmail.com - 2013-09-24 17:32 -0700
    Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-09-25 09:52 +0300
      Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins Don Y <this@isnotme.com> - 2013-09-25 00:09 -0700
        Re: Counting 2ms long pulses on several input pins j.m.granville@gmail.com - 2013-09-25 16:53 -0700

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