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    Smile Where can i buy dual rotary encoders in Europe?

    Hello all,

    Any adress to advise.I know there are some sellers in the USA but i am afraid by the shipment cost.

    Olivier Sinnaeve.Brussels,Belgium

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    Hi,
    i just had a look here & saw these encoders & i think they are closer to you than USA.
    Good luck
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    http://www.opencockpits.com/modules....howpage&pid=35

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    Hi Olivier,

    look for Knitter switches. These types (MRP 1-20 series) are operating with no phase shift. You may consider them as 2 independant momentary switches whereby the one delivers pulses when turned clockwise and the other when turned counterclockwise.
    So any keyboard encoder would work together with them no additional circuitry needed to define turning direction. The direction of turning is made mechanically inside the rotary.

    Here the Knitter reps:

    AVNET TIME
    Eagle Building/Kouterveldstraat 20
    B-1831 Diegem
    phone: +32-(0)2/7099002
    fax: +32-(0)2/7099801
    e-mail: TimeBe@avnet.com

    SPOERLE BELGIEN
    Keiberg 11
    Minervastraat 14/B2
    B-1930 Zaventem
    phone: +32-(0)2/72546-60
    fax: +32-(0)2/72545-11
    e-mail: SalesOffice.Brussels@spoerle.com


    Hope this helps

    Best rgds

    Peter

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    Dual rotary Encoder (coaxial?)

    Hello

    Depending on your interface card, you can not use Knitter. This is the case for IO-Cards, I tried but they were too inaccurate and not useful. You can use Knitter on FSUBS, there I tried too. Works OK, although the Knitter are very flimsy and not stable.

    I have my dual rotary encoder from a guy in spain. He made them himself out of 2 standard BOURNS encoder ECW1J-B24-BC0006. They work flwaless together with IO-Cards. I have to dig out the e-mail adress, I found this solution in a AVSIM forum thread. The costs were around 15 Euro per dual-encoder.
    Alternative sources:
    - BOURNS (directly)
    - www.digikey.com


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    Dual rotary Encoder (coaxial?)

    Hello

    Another source is ALPS, they sell also dual rotary encoder.
    To connect them to IO-Cards, you need to have an additional interface card called "IOCard Encoders II" . This because ALPS has a different encoding principle than IO-Card can understand directly.

    Manufacturer : ALPS
    Source : www.simparts.de
    alternative: any electronics parts-supplier (Conrad?)

    @flytui
    What flightsimulator interface do you use?

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    Thanks a lot for those info.

    Olivier

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    Quote Originally Posted by Majorfibbs View Post
    Hello

    Depending on your interface card, you can not use Knitter. This is the case for IO-Cards, I tried but they were too inaccurate and not useful. You can use Knitter on FSUBS, there I tried too. Works OK, although the Knitter are very flimsy and not stable.

    I have my dual rotary encoder from a guy in spain. He made them himself out of 2 standard BOURNS encoder ECW1J-B24-BC0006. They work flwaless together with IO-Cards. I have to dig out the e-mail adress, I found this solution in a AVSIM forum thread. The costs were around 15 Euro per dual-encoder.
    Alternative sources:
    - BOURNS (directly)
    - www.digikey.com


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    I am very interested in these dual encoders from Spain. Do you have any contact or more information for me?
    thx
    Sam

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    I ordered mine from cockpitsonic usa and asked for the cheapest shipping available, in the end it cost me $34 total, 2 x $12 for the encoders with knobs and $10 shipping.

    A big reduction on the cockpitsonic.de price of over 60 euros.

    David.

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    But do the cockpitsonic encoder work directly with the IOcards MC or do you have to connect them to an encoder card?

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    Hi,
    it looks here also http://www.elomfly.com

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