[Elecraft] K-Pod VFO counts per turn?

Dick Dievendorff dick at elecraft.com
Mon Jul 11 09:24:16 EDT 2016



> On Jul 10, 2016, at 22:19, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> The K3 and K3S both use all 400 counts of the VFO A and B encoders (100 pulses/track/revolution). 
> 
> The K-Pod defaults to 200 counts. During our testing we found that this provided the best compromise between precision and "fussiness" for typical K-Pod operations.
> 
> We plan to add a function to K-Pod Utility (which itself isn't quite ready yet) that will allow the user to change this to 100/200/400.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> 
>> On Jul 10, 2016, at 5:28 PM, "Joe Stone (KF5WBO)" <kf5wbo at wickedbeernut.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Bill.  That's exactly what Rick is seeing.  The K-Pod is essentially
>> functioning as a 50-PPR quadrature encoder, rather than a 100-PPR quadrature
>> encoder.  Let's see what Elecraft has to say.  
>> 
>> 73's
>> 
>> Joe Stone
>> KF5WBO
>> 
>> 
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