From: DaveC on
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How can I find a source for this component (in the US, or anywhere)? It's a
rotary encoder used as an input to a microcontroller to rotate a motor shaft
in small increments in a 10-year old German printing machine.

There are 32 detents per revolution. The unit includes a momentary pushbutton
(when you push on the shaft there is click and tactile feedback).

I presume it's a gray-code quadrature output encoder. Optical? Mechanical?
Only 5 of the pins are used. (Typically power, ground, channel 1, channel 2,
.... ?)

Source? Data sheet?

Does this look like Klockner-Moeller? Or it may be Japanese -- the LCD
display for this equipment is Hitachi.

Thanks,
Dave

From: krw on
On Wed, 5 May 2010 20:36:47 -0700, DaveC <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote:

><http://i42.tinypic.com/nbt2ci.jpg>
><http://i43.tinypic.com/10rpd3d.jpg>
><http://i39.tinypic.com/28gtmvs.jpg>
>
>How can I find a source for this component (in the US, or anywhere)? It's a
>rotary encoder used as an input to a microcontroller to rotate a motor shaft
>in small increments in a 10-year old German printing machine.
>
>There are 32 detents per revolution. The unit includes a momentary pushbutton
>(when you push on the shaft there is click and tactile feedback).

We use Bourns optical encoders, like this, for "volume" knobs (double duty for
options scrolling). Grayhill also has some nice products, a little cheaper,
too.

>I presume it's a gray-code quadrature output encoder. Optical? Mechanical?
>Only 5 of the pins are used. (Typically power, ground, channel 1, channel 2,
>... ?)

Ours just have the quadrature output. We use a I2C attached quadrature
counter for control.

>Source? Data sheet?

See above, or try Digikey's online catalog as a starting place.

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=1966131&k=optical%20encoder

>Does this look like Klockner-Moeller? Or it may be Japanese -- the LCD
>display for this equipment is Hitachi.
From: stratus46 on
On May 5, 8:36 pm, DaveC <inva...(a)invalid.net> wrote:
> <http://i42.tinypic.com/nbt2ci.jpg>
> <http://i43.tinypic.com/10rpd3d.jpg>
> <http://i39.tinypic.com/28gtmvs.jpg>
>
> How can I find a source for this component (in the US, or
anywhere)? It's a
> rotary encoder used as an input to a microcontroller to rotate a
motor shaft
> in small increments in a 10-year old German printing machine.
>
> There are 32 detents per revolution. The unit includes a momentary
pushbutton
> (when you push on the shaft there is click and tactile feedback).
>
> I presume it's a gray-code quadrature output encoder. Optical?
Mechanical?
> Only 5 of the pins are used. (Typically power, ground, channel 1,
channel 2,
> ... ?)
>
> Source? Data sheet?
>
> Does this look like Klockner-Moeller? Or it may be Japanese -- the
LCD
> display for this equipment is Hitachi.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?lang=en&site=US&WT..z_homepage_link=hp_go_button&KeyWords=gh6102&x=0&y=0

32 detents, incremental quadrature, optical read, tactile switch.


From: DaveC on
Yes, I can find *a* rotary encoder. I need *this* rotary encoder.

Any idea the make & model of this one? Is EBE the manufacturer?

Thanks,
Dave

From: Royston Vasey on

"DaveC" <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C807875F02BFBFD4B01AD9AF(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> <http://i42.tinypic.com/nbt2ci.jpg>
> <http://i43.tinypic.com/10rpd3d.jpg>
> <http://i39.tinypic.com/28gtmvs.jpg>
>
> How can I find a source for this component (in the US, or anywhere)? It's
> a
> rotary encoder used as an input to a microcontroller to rotate a motor
> shaft
> in small increments in a 10-year old German printing machine.
>
> There are 32 detents per revolution. The unit includes a momentary
> pushbutton
> (when you push on the shaft there is click and tactile feedback).
>
> I presume it's a gray-code quadrature output encoder. Optical? Mechanical?
> Only 5 of the pins are used. (Typically power, ground, channel 1, channel
> 2,
> ... ?)
>
> Source? Data sheet?
>
> Does this look like Klockner-Moeller? Or it may be Japanese -- the LCD
> display for this equipment is Hitachi.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>

googling should lead you to a source.

A single earch on cesi + encoder gave:

http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/176657/1202078/0/1144194283.jpg