[sdiy] alternative to rotary switches ?

[Happy Harry]

I just bought some Grayhill mechanical rotary encoders...
hex output 16 position with detents... for about $3.50 each
(in one-sies)

Life of 100,000 operations (full rotations).

That could be used for a lot of switch functions...

H^) harry


>From: John Speth <JohnS at molectron.com>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] alternative to rotary switches ?
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:51:21 -0800
>
> > i'd appreciate hearing about other kinds of switches people use for
> > multi-pole operations (4+ poles). i was thinking of a
> > pushbutton array like
> > on a blender, but cannot seem to find these in electronic
> > (vs. mechanical)
>
>This question comes up in my brain often.  Seems to me that it's much
>cheaper today to implement an electronic selector circuit with a pot and an
>MCU with an ADC input.  You get the added bonus of the smarts of an MCU.
>
>If only there were pots available with a series of equally spaced detents 
>to
>give the feeling of a selector switch, we'd have the problem solved.  
>Anyone
>know of pots with detents?
>
>John Speth
>mailto:johns at molectron.com




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