Re: reducing the encoder line count

Hi, Took out my calculator, punched in 1968, hit the 1/x key.
Got .00050813 as the answer. Coincidentally .2" is 5.08 mm. Too much
of a coincidence. Sounds like a 5 pitch leadscrew to metric value,
(5/5.08 : 1968/2000).

Mariss

> I saw these three facny looking encoders on ebay for $24.95 the

set.

> Sounded like my kind of numbers. I checked w/ the company Disc

merged

> into re spec. The tech went off to hunt in the vaults when

confronted

> w/ an obsolete part number and came back and said the the unit had
> 1968 lines, and wondered why anyone would want that, but there you
> had it.
>
> I just assumed that commonly available software / motion

controllers

> wouldn't like this oddball number, but I thought I'd buy em anyway.
> They look like the kind of thing that would cost $$249.50 each,

your

> tax dollars at waste. So if it turns out they can be used as is,

well

> so much the better. They've A,B,not A, not B, index, etc.
>
> -Jack