[sdiy] Encoder + LED ring

[Tom Wiltshire]

I only know about these ones, from Conrad Electronics:

http://www2.conrad-uk.com/goto.php?artikel=700608

Expensive as hell, but nice.

T.


On 2 Aug 2010, at 16:28, Ullrich Peter wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Only the LED rings: http://www.signal-construct.de/images/stories/pdf/pcb/LED-Module%20und%20Drehgeberanzeige.pdf
> 
> There have been encoders with LED rings from Elma but the link is dead now...
> http://www.elma.com/files/products/rotary_components/pdfs/deprecated/M/k/4047_6331.pdf
> 
> They looked like the Nordlead knobs:
> http://www.clavia.se/pictures/nordlead3/NL3knobturnLarge.jpg 
> 
> Ciao
> Peter
> 
> Http://come.to/ullrich
> http://go.to/datadial 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Thomas Strathmann
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 7:24 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] Encoder + LED ring
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm thinking about building a hybrid sequencer with rotary encoders. It 
> would be very nice to have those LED rings to indicate the current 
> position of the encoder in order to combine the benefits of using rotary 
> encoders (different scales realised programmatically, recall, etc.) and 
> the benefits of regular pots (current value is visible at all times). 
> Now I do not know where to get them (preferably at a decent price of 
> course) in Europe (specifically Germany). One idea I had was to 
> canibalize a Behringer BCR-2000 which has lots of those encoders with 
> LED rings, but I am unsure whether I can easily use them in my own 
> design. Maybe someone has already done something like this? Thanks!
> 
> 	Thomas
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