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Calibration of the heads arm coil

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jp-gleyzesJP Gleyzes 07/09/2022 at 08:430 Comments

The heads arm coil bhaves as a galvanometer.

However its behavior is not totally linear. Thus the minutes ticks could be a little unprecise...

A calibration procedure is needed!

I have choosen to calibrate the minutes every 5min. It meens that a multi linear curve is applied to fine tune the PWM value applied to the coil.

Once again you can use the PC application to interactively enter these calibration values. You will have to enter 5 values (00:00, 00/15, 00:30, 00:45, 01:00)

Your coil arm is now calibrated!

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