[sdiy] rotary encoder?

[Tom Wiltshire]

Here's another example of a 16-position rotary with hex outputs:

http://www.grayhill.com/PDF_Catalog/Mech_Encoder_25L.pdf

Like Dave, I haven't seen a 12 position one - mostly 10 (BCD coded)  
or 16 (hex coded). I suppose you could rig up some kind of end stop.

HTH,
T.

On 8 Jan 2009, at 01:02, 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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