optical pots

[Paul Perry]

At 10:55 AM 7/05/99 -0700, Jim Patchell wrote:

>~$20,  both of those are optical.  Going mechanical, you are down in the $3
>range.  I have never used a mechanical encoder.  Anybody ever have problems
>with the mechanical encoders (life, etc).
>
these mechanical ones seem ok to me.
A customer had something fall on his rack and smash the data pot on his Proteus,
which would be a very serious problem in Australia, but it turns out the
remains matched a picture of a mech encoder in the Farnell catalog.
A friend who built his own DSP synth uses a mech encoder for the patch and data
selection without problems.

paul perry Frostwave P/lMelbourne Australia