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Re: Quadrature shaft encoder source

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Originally Posted by 1680Bruce View Post
Billbo,

If you have any "one turn" needs, the USDigital Absolute analog 'pots' are amazing.(no stop and 0-1023 range at less than the cost of a precision pot)

They also stock some really useful Quadrature to Analog interfaces if you'd rather not deal with interrupts.(etachs for velocity + direction, edacs for position even in multi turn scenarios)
Cool! Thanks for the suggestion.
The great thing is, there is always more than one way to "skin a cat". We will just have to figure out which way is the best match for our design needs and budget.
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