Interfacing For Incremental Hollow Shaft Encoder from Baumer

Are you trying to make a joystick out of encoders?

Not my first choice as far as price, size, complexity and performance.

The electronic circuit exists in the for of a microcontroller you would program, some dev boards are small and cheap.

Or use a quadrature counter D/A converter and analog interface, but it does not exist off the shelf, unless you contract it.

it is quite expensive, but i have very good signal with less noise..

The easiest way is using microcontroller, but there are few reasons which makes it not the best option. (more or less, that's why i'm confused now... :p)

yes, i think i need some sort of quadrature counter D/A converter, but i need it in a form of a ready box which i can order it quick, and use it. I need it to test my system.

Do you have some example of the thing?

Can you share me some links, maybe?

Thx a lot!!

http://www.usdigital.com/products/interface-products.shtml is a good start.

Maybe I am stupid, not a bad thought at times, but could you not achieve the same for a lot less money?

You generate +10Vdc regulated and the joysticks are wound resistor potentiometers of good quality.

You get clean, well formed and very controlled signals.

Don't be shy, just tell me if this is soooo far of the mark it is actually on the next planet

WOW!!! This is a classic. And Brian, please do not think for a moment, that I am knocking you. Not at all. But this is a unique teaching moment. How to do things the way we know how (complex and expensive) versus going back to basic principles and doing them well.

I would not use a complex solution ever, when my life depends on it. Bill Lear was very much for simplifying things, so are the creator of Spaceship One, masters of their craft. The watchword is SIMPLICITY. There is nothing wrong in learning from the masters.

So KISS, keep it simple, stupid. Do not design in anything you do not want to go wrong, and you do not have a ready procedure when (not if) goes wrong. With all that, I DID NOT SAY, that executing the simple very well is easy.

You want to know, what a difference basic principles do to the endproducts? Boeing design things where the pilot can overrule the computer. The europeans let the computer overrule the pilot. Different philosophies. Check it out. Some interesting stories.

thx a lot for all the replies!! :)

it's been ages since i did this and it was when i did my internship (my internship was ended, and i forgot to thanks),, :p

now, i'm doing my thesis and having similiar problem.. LOL!!

:) :) :) :)

What did you end up doing as a solution?

i found a suitable decoder board.. :)