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BUT..... If you have, say, 20 rotaries, each with 10 positions, that's 200 seperate connections to the EPIC. And is 10 stops per full turn going to be detailed enough for you? A typical rotary encoder is 16 or 24. The Knitter is 18. Put 20 x 24-stop rotary switches on your panel, and you need 480 connections to the EPIC. <BR>
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On the other hand, if you use a Knitter or a rotary encoder with a decoder board, those 20 switches need only 40 connections to the board. And if you can get away with a simple "a or A" choice from each rotary, then the 20 rotaries need only 21 connections. Plus, doing it that way, you can use KBStudio to apply macros, including Rotary multiplying (Turn slowly, one step per 'click' - Turn fast, 2, 4, 8 etc steps per click - great for OBS tuning etc.)<BR>
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In a message dated 2/5/04 1:26:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, mafsix@hotmail.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Say you have a rotary with 10 contacts. That's 10 separate connections to the EPIC, and in the EPIC program, all one would need to do is set up some fairly straightforward logic to analyze where the rotary is at. If the program simply stored the value associated with the current position of the knob, and when a different contact of the 10 was detected, it would be compared to the previously stored value, which would determine which way the knob was being turned. This would give EPIC enought data to send whatever the appropriate key combination was for increment or decrement.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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