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The Art of the Helicopter John Watkinson - Karatunov.net

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Fig. 7.33 <strong>The</strong> false codes created if pure binary is used in an encoder. See text for details.<br />

number represents a different control position, and care must be taken during encoding<br />

to ensure that <strong>the</strong> control does not go outside <strong>the</strong> quantizing range, or it will be limited<br />

or clipped.<br />

In aviation many controls are bi-directional and have a centre neutral position. In<br />

Figure 7.35 it will be seen that in a ten-bit pure binary system, <strong>the</strong> number range<br />

goes from 000 hex, which represents <strong>the</strong> largest negative input, through 1FF16, which<br />

represents <strong>the</strong> smallest negative input, through 20016, which represents <strong>the</strong> smallest<br />

positive input, to 3FF16, which represents <strong>the</strong> largest positive input. Effectively, <strong>the</strong><br />

neutral position <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> control has been shifted so that both positive and negative inputs<br />

may be expressed as positive numbers only. This approach is called <strong>of</strong>fset binary, and<br />

is perfectly acceptable where <strong>the</strong> control has been encoded solely for signalling from<br />

one place to ano<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

Control 297

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