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Re: Quadrature shaft encoder source

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Originally Posted by billbo911 View Post
I have seen in a couple threads that teams have used a specific Quadrature encoder for various projects. The one I can't seem to find is usually red, about the same size as a standard rotary pot but has four pins coming out of the back.
www.grayhill.com available at digikey. Geared correctly, the 63R128 and 63R256 are pretty good encoders.

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