Please elaborate a bit on the use of a stepper motor as an encoder.
Tnx, Bob Smith
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> > Thanks for this info, its a bit pricy (about US$75.00) but looks like
it
> > will fill that nitch.
>
> My former manger had this non-contact inductive sensor that he was in love
> with. It required customer metal work to feed in to the holes in the
sensor.
> Each unit needed the metal tweaked. To top it off the output was very
> non-linear so I had to fix that problem in software.
>
> I proposed the Vishay unit but he would not let me use it. It had linear
> output, didn't need customer metal work, and each unit would be identical.
>
> When you counted the custom metal work, the prices where competitive.
>
> I'll let you figure it out, I never have.
>
> If you want a cheap encoder use a stepper motor:
>
> http://www.4qdtec.com/stpen.html
>
> Now does any one know of a cheap (<$75 US) absolute position encoder?
>
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