4 Oct
2010
4 Oct
'10
1:42 p.m.
Hi Tony
Your solution to the waveform is interesting. You added the capacitor
to fix the problem caused by the 74LS14. The problem is that the
hysteresis of the LS14 is so large that it eats up the phase
margines of the roughly sine/cosine from the optical sensors.
I don't think this is the same problem. Without the capacitors, and with
the 470R resistors, I was getting waveforms with roughtly 1:1 mark-space
ratio, and while not exactly in quadrature, pretty darn close. The only
problem was that every so often (perhaps 1 in every 10000 pulses), there
would be a glitch in one of the waveforms. It's not supply relateded, and
I couldn't repodcude it by, say, jiggling the encoder disk.
But that glitch was taken by the elctronics as a valid pulse which upset
things.
AAdding the capacitors hasn't noticeably changed the mark:space ratio or
the phasing. But it's got rid of the glitches.
A lot of optical mice use the '14 and the output signals look pretty good
to me.
-tony