You can get in the ball park with f = 1000 = 1/(2*pi*RC) where R is the pullup resistor value It's more apropos to calculate the time constant, but I can't recall that formula right now.

Sure, yeah, the time constant is asymmetrical but it is the slowest constant that matters... charging through the pull up resistance. It's far from a detailed estimate but it will get you close to the 1kHz you mentioned.

[image] 'm reading the pulses on a regular input pin on a 1284P chip. There are no pull-ups or anything aside from whatever is in the motor. It gives good high and low pulses. In which case there is no need to de-bounce anything. There is nothing to cause a bounce in the first place. Contact…

[image] Delta_G: I don't think it's an optical encoder. Never said it was. [image] Delta_G: I think it's a mechanical encoder. That was the confusion i thought the 1284P was a chip not the ATmega1284P. However, the state machine that reads the encoder pulses should eliminate any boun…

[image] Delta_G: I think it's a mechanical encoder. If you dont know the characteristics of a signal you really have no basis for processing it. So your first step should be identifying the motor and its encoder. Its very unlikely to have moving contacts, much more likely an optical or magn…

[image] bounce in a motor encoder I highly doubt a motor encoder will be mechanical. It would wear out in a matter of hours. The ones I have seen had hall sensors, which you don't need to debounce. Leo..

[image] I need to filter out everything above 1kHz. You want to keep the fundamental frequency and and around the first 5 harmonics, otherwise you will just get a very small amplitude sinewave. For a squarewave the harmonics are at odd frequencies. Fundamental = 1kHz (first harmonic) Secon…

Cross-talk is more likely if the value of the pull up resistors is too high. Try 1k. Leo..

[image] Delta_G: at one point I had 4 little ceramic caps all sitting parallel to each other at the ends of the rows of the breadboard going to the ground rail. When I had them like that, I suddenly had all kinds of cross talk between the encoder lines. It is likely that the fact that all the…

[image] Delta_G: When I think about how a capacitor works it kind of makes sense that they'd store a charge between them. All conductive surfaces have capacitance between them. But if you run the numbers, you would find that the capacitance in this case would be in the nanoFarad range, not ev…

Re: Capacitor size for Encoder Bounce

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PerryBebbington July 16, 2023, 6:11am 11

Hello @Delta_G ,

This might be of interest as background information about how to read a rotary encoder: Reading rotary encoders as a state machine

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