John Kasunich wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>   
>>  The customer
>> has some razor blades on a chain, and these need to move like
>> electronic gearing when a part comes down a production line.
>>     
>
> Unrelated to the main thread - if doing electronic gearing, I
> suggest reading about the "encoder-ratio" HAL component.
> It was designed specifically for that job, and has some 
> tricks to ensure that even if the production line runs forever
> in one direction (and thus position values get very large),
> the accuracy is not limited by floating point resolution.
>   
OK, interesting!  Thanks,

Jon

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