Re: encoder head pitch, or, quit your griping.

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:48:50 -0700, "Elliot Burke" <elliot@...>
wrote:

>Rather than gripe about HP not building what you want, build one yourself.

Try to moderate your stridency, eh? Nobody was "griping" that HP
wouldn't build what hobbyists desire. In fact, I alluded to the fact
that they didn't HAVE the resolutions directly that we most wanted, by
humorously observing that their Product Marketing Mgr. didn't seem to be
too concerned with losing the "hobbyist market". This was OBVIOUSLY a
joke and a recognition what we're small-fry in this market, not a
"gripe".

Yourself and Jon have both now said "pieceOcake" to build yer own. Fine.
But since few of "us wee folk" can boast as you have, that we've "done
consulting work for encoder manufacturers, in optical design", repeated
statements that it's a no-brainer is likely to fall on deaf ears. Not
everybody's inclined to sleuth out the insNouts of optical
encoders/design just to get a linear motion detector. It's perfectly
reasonable and NO gripe, to observe that the current sensors & scales
don't yield the (for us) optimum native resolution of 0.001" per
quad-count. Where do you see "griping" in THAT observation. Nobody said
it was a show-stopper or a major impediment, simply an inconvenience and
lament that something was so close.

Instead of sounding like a know-it-all, if you think it's so bloody easy
to build one of these yerself, why don't you TAKE the hobbyist approach,
and the approach of this group, and EXPLAIN and describe HOW ordinary
mere mortals like the rest of us lower life-forms could "easily build
one ourselves"? And I don't mean by that, some glib hand-waving like
"you just need an led, a detector, and a couple gratings spaces apart by
soNso amount". If you wanna boast that it's "sooooo trivial", then put
up or shut up.

I might point out however, that one who boasts that ANY topic is
"trivial and obvious to even the most casual observer", as we used to
say in college, is quiet ILL suited to then changing hats and becoming a
sharer of his good things. From that point on, the thot is always
lurking that the person is sharing his knowledge for the sposed ego
boost, rather than the enjoyment of collaboration amongst fellows.

You might wanna consider this in the future.

Gar