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Subject:Re: tach
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:50:07 -0400
At 01:24 AM 10/17/2002, Leon Korkin wrote:
>Volks,
>I know there was some talk re signal to tach in the past.
>Would like to get or make tach checking device just to
>quickly test tach at a set value. Anybody knows what would this signal
>be? Square vaweform? Frequency?

I'd expect the tach to be looking for a ringing pulse of fairly low duty
cycle at about 33 pulses per second per 1000 rpm.  However it might respond
fine to a square wave.

david

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