Re: reducing the encoder line count

Mariss--I gotta tell you--I never would have thought of that in a
million years. It is quite a coincidence.

--Jack

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Mariss Freimanis"
<geckohall@h...> wrote:

>
> 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