[sdiy] Using dual taper (4 pin) pots as encoders ?

[Tom Wiltshire]

I hope the mounting height matches some other useful hardware!

Trying to find pots that match the rotary switches, encoders, or buttons you have is very difficult.

Tom

> On 21 Jun 2024, at 14:11, Martin Klang via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> aka Endless potentiometer, with two outputs in phase quadrature. The Alpha RV112FF-40 is the only commercially available example that I know of.
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> Martin
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> From: Roman Sowa via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 21 2024, 2:53 pm
> To: Benjamin Tremblay <btremblay at me.com>; SDIY List <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Using dual taper (4 pin) pots as encoders ?
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> Quadrature potentiometer.
> One taper is rotated 180 or 90 degrees versus the other one. This way at 
> any angle there's at least one wiper on its taper. Basicaly a way to 
> remove the dead spot, where wiper travels over empty fragment between 
> taper ends.
> Measure 2 voltages, a bit of calculations and you have rotary encoder 
> with resolution as high as your ADC.
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> Roman
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> W dniu 2024-06-21 o 13:34, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy pisze:
> > Hi, another MCU question.
> > I have noticed many synth manufacturers have used 10K 4-pin dual 
> > potentiometers as “encoders”. I’m assuming that these are feeding a 
> > multiplexed ADC.
> > My question is, what is the secret sauce? Are both pot tracks wired 
> > differentially to reduce noise? Does this indeed go into an ADC or is 
> > this some clever way to approximate a rotary encoder but have the smooth 
> > motion of a pot?
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> > If using a 4-pin potentiometer is a way of achieving a more stable and 
> > reliable mass-production of control knobs, I’m very interested.
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> > Thanks,
> > Ben
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> > Benjamin Tremblay
> > btremblay at me.com <mailto:btremblay at me.com>
> > Carlisle, MA 01741
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