{"id":3632,"date":"2016-02-04T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3632","title":{"rendered":"How do I change the rotary motion sensor to read clockwise rotation as positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, we do not recommend changing the setting on the <a href=\"\/product\/rotary-motion-sensor\/\">Rotary Motion Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>RMV-BTD<\/nobr>) to &#8220;left-handed&#8221; as opposed to the conventional, &#8220;right-handed&#8221; orientation in which counter-clockwise (anti-clockwise) is measured as positive angle values. However, it can be done.<\/p>\n<p>In Logger <i>Pro<\/i>:<br \/>\n1. Choose your interface from Sensor Setup in the Experiment Menu.<br \/>\n2. Click on the Rotary Motion Sensor and choose Calibrate from the menu.<br \/>\n3. In the Equation tab, make the Counts\/rotation value negative (e.g. -360).<br \/>\n4. Click Apply, and then OK to exit the dialog box.<\/p>\n<p>In LabQuest App:<br \/>\n1. On the meter screen, tap the meter and choose Calibrate&#8230;<br \/>\n2. In the Equation tab, change the value of X: from positive to negative (e.g. -360).<br \/>\n3. Tap OK.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, we do not recommend changing the setting on the to &#8220;left-handed&#8221; as opposed to the conventional, &#8220;right-handed&#8221; orientation in which counter-clockwise (anti-clockwise) is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6128,6125,6127,6025,6126,411,6129],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anticlockwise","tag-clockwise","tag-counterclockwise","tag-negative","tag-positive","tag-rmv-btd","tag-rotation-direction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}