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I have a 24v servo motor coupled to a 2,000 segment optical encoder that runs on 5v.

That's 2,000 "ticks" per revolution at it's base resolution. (Full quad reading allows 8,000 ticks per revolution, which I have no idea how a person could really USE! Egads that's tiny slices of a circle.)

It ALSO has a 'full-circle' index, a "Z" line.

That Z SEEMS to be coincident with A. Meaning that the clear slot in the rotor seems to be in the same place for both ONE of the A ticks and the only Z tick. I do not have an oscilliscope to verify this, but timestamping two different interrupts makes it seem like they do line up (one on A one on Z).

The motor runs at max 1075 RPM. So if I did the maths correctly that means there are 2,150,000 ticks per minute on the A/B lines plus 1075 ticks per minute on the Z line.

35,833.33-ish ticks per second on the A line.

17.9166-ish ticks per second on the Z line.

I have used sample code from a number of sources on both a Nano v3 and an Uno r3. I can't get counting to be accurate on either device, both lose ticks counting the A trigger and the coincidence of the A and Z ticks makes the interrupts 'stack' (both trigger almost instantaneously, but whichever was first gets processed and THEN the other gets processed...)

I do know that I can get IC's that will count for me, but there are MANY models and I do not have the ability to determine which would suit this situation the best.

Despite reading a great number of posts about encoders and the Arduino code to read them I still don't understand if the Nano or Uno COULD do this on their own at this speed.

GOAL:

  1. Accurately track all 2000 pulses per revolution at 1075 RPM.
  2. Accurately track FULL rotation pulses at 1075 RPM.
  3. Use full rotations as error-checking against the 2000 count.
  4. Provide error-checked count as an absolute count to external device.
  5. Provide resettable zero-point to external device (remotely reset the count).

So please, if you would, inform me about or direct me to proven methods and resources for achieving the above goals?

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    Do you have to track rotation in both directions? Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 7:21
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    Yes. Intended use is in small CNC machine. Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 9:23
  • For this you would typically pick a microcontroller that has a quadrature encoder interface in it. You could count the pulses with a timer, but you wouldn't get direction information with that. Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 13:21

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