Hi all, I have a motorised turntable, which is driven by a synchronised AC Motor, and I need to get angular position of the rotation. Because it was hard to hack electronic structure of the table I have decided to use rotary encoder. But now I am facing another problem as you can see on the photo …

Turntable and rotary encoder

CrossRoads May 20, 2014, 7:52pm 2

Ooh, that encoder will be spinning for it's life!
Can you instead put some optical marking on the outer rim of the wheel and monitor that?

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