[simpits-tech] 360' potentiometer?

[Gene Buckle]

The best you'd get is a hall effect device with the pin-stop removed.

g.


On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Roy Coates wrote:

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>
> Bon Jovi my dear simpitting pals... I've a question for you.
>
> By removing the potentiometer and hardware restriction in a regular RC
> servo, you get a rather nice geared motor that'll do 360' but you will
> have no idea WHERE the darned thing is pointing.
>
> Now... ideally you might use a shaft encoder for this but since I already
> have some spare analogue inputs, I wondered if I could rig up a pot of
> some sort to give me a voltage proportional to the motors rotation.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Danke!
>
> Roy.
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