Hi Does anyone have any "homebuild stuff" or drawing or idea how I can build a cheap pot-meter / absolute encoder/resolver for tower position to a digital meter??? I have a big gearbox with electric
a pot, two pulleys, a belt, and a digital ohm meter... if you are careful about picking the size of the pulleys and the value of the pot you could even get it to read 0-360 without any conversion. ma
Another route would be to get some bicycle gears and chain to drive a pot, 3T, 10T, what ever. My commercial rotator (PST-61) uses a 10T pot but only makes use of about a turn and a half. Use what ev