Re: 10k potentiometer for Omega Race Spinner

I just got my 10k potentiometer in the mail today from Mouser. It works
perfectly. You do have to adjust the two pots on the encoder board to get
a smooth motion all the way around. Mine stuck a little bit at the 3
o'clock position, but now it's pretty good.

So, for anyone that wishes to do the same - the mouser part number is
652-6639s-1-103

Matt

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From: <solarfox@texas.net>
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Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: 10k potentiometer for Omega Race Spinner

> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 20:36:33 +0400, you wrote:
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>
> >the unfortunate part of this is that i dont think it was a quadrature
> >encoder, but a far more expensive "grayscale" type.
>
> If it uses a Gray-code encoder, it should be relatively trivial to use
> a PIC microcontroller to convert the output of a quadrature encoder to
Gray
> codes... all we really need to know is how many bits of data it wants to
> see.
>
> >i should try to find the manual and bally tech updates sometime
> >to check this stuff.
>
>
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