On 6/13/2012 3:19 PM, Stein-Roar Brobakken wrote:
> 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 motor.. but just need some assistance to
> get some readout... Like on a rotary tower ....
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 ever portion
you want, build a voltage divider and simple power supply to proved an
output voltage that will vary from 0 - 360 and read it on a cheap DVM.
However you choose to drive the pot the PS could be a cheap wall wart
with a calibration resistor between it and the directional indicating
pot. As a DVM presents very little load in the voltage mode you could
simply calculate a voltage divider to get the desired voltages so it'd
read out directly in degrees.
Let your imagination be your guide. You can go fancy or simple, with
encoder, decode, or a simple divider. You can e3ven add a bridge circuit
for a "go to" arrangement.
73
Roger (K8RI)
>
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