Running my LabView application on Win98 Pent III-550 is too slow. Will it run faster on Linux ?
I am checking the height of stamped metal parts with a laser, a DAQ, and a shaft encoder. The washers are 1 mm thich [high]. I need to check min height as well as max height. I am launching these 1/2" OD washers on to a rotating 24" diameter bowl. I am calibrating out the effect of bowl wobble. While I would like to run the bowl at say 20 rpm, the system is struggling at 3 rpm just measuring max height. It seems like I can maybe use maximum two "if" statements [blocks] per loop. The shaft encoder can be set to "click" 1000, 2000, or 4000 times per revolution. Thus each program loop is required to run in approx 1 millisecond. I would like to not have the expense of LabView RT.
