[sdiy] rotary encoder?

[harrybissell at wowway.com]

Could it be a 16 position ?  Grayhill has some at about
$5 that I've used with 4 bit output. It is an 'absolute'
encoder...  I got mine from Digi-key.

H^) harry


On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:02:25 -0500, mark verbos wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I have a situation where I'd like a 12 position rotary switch to  
> output a parallel 4 bit digital word. I searched absolute rotary  
> encoder at mouser and they're $88. Isn't there a cheap part out 
> there  that does that? Obviously, I could use 50 diodes to make a 
> regular  rotary switch do that... Has anyone done this before?
> 
> Mark
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