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<html><head></head><body><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">aka Endless potentiometer, with two outputs in phase quadrature. The Alpha RV112FF-40 is the only commercially available example that I know of.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Martin</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(176, 176, 183); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px;">-----Original message-----<br><strong>From:</strong> Roman Sowa via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br><strong>Sent:</strong> Friday, June 21 2024, 2:53 pm<br><strong>To:</strong> Benjamin Tremblay <btremblay@me.com>; SDIY List <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [sdiy] Using dual taper (4 pin) pots as encoders ?<br> <pre style="text-wrap: wrap;">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.
Roman
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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