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- From: hutto@SMTC.engr.scarolina.edu (Brent Hutto)
- Subject: Re: Question about R/C receivers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.133533.7448@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: NIST Southeast Manufacturing Technology Center
- References: <16B5D6AFD.D2KAK@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:35:33 GMT
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- In article <16B5D6AFD.D2KAK@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, D2KAK@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU writes:
-
- > In PCM radios, the information on stick position is transmitted
- >to the receiver (also as a train of pulses) in the form of serial
- >binary numbers. The length of the binary number determines the resolution
- >of the system (hence 512 or 1024 bit resolution). A dedicated microprocesor
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >in the receiver then decodes the information and sends a pulse to the
- >appropriate servo. This pulse is identical to the pulse sent in a standard
- >system, which is why you can use servos interchangeably in both types of
- >systems.
-
- This is the terminology used by Futaba in their marketing stuff, but
- is not correct from a technical point of view. The resolution is either
- 512 or 1024 POSITIONS, which corresponds to 9 or 10 bits in a control
- word. I really don't know why they came up with this "1024 bit"
- terminology other than thinking that the word "bit" has a suitably
- high-tech, computer-like connotation.
-
- Of course this doesn't detract from Kraig's fine explanation of the
- operation of receiver/servo subsystems, but I did want to point out
- how this terminology differs from that accepted in the rest of the
- digital electronics industry.
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- Brent Hutto
- hutto@SMTC.engr.scarolina.edu
-