- Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:31 am
#3712
May I suggest that our friends at Sparkfun consider being a source for the new Austriamicrosystems AS5040 magnetic encoder.
Here's the link: http://www.austriamicrosystems.com/04se ... AS5040.htm
It's a small 16-pin SSOP-16 chip that uses a ring of Hall-effect devices to make a 10-bit encoder. The shaft has a rotating magnet and the surface of the chip is mounted about 1.5 mm from the magnet.
The chip provides a SSI absolute position, standard quadrature outputs and even a PWM analog output reflecting the current position.
I understand that the chip is about $4.00 in large quantities.
Just a suggestion.
Cheers,
Jim Lynch
Here's the link: http://www.austriamicrosystems.com/04se ... AS5040.htm
It's a small 16-pin SSOP-16 chip that uses a ring of Hall-effect devices to make a 10-bit encoder. The shaft has a rotating magnet and the surface of the chip is mounted about 1.5 mm from the magnet.
The chip provides a SSI absolute position, standard quadrature outputs and even a PWM analog output reflecting the current position.
I understand that the chip is about $4.00 in large quantities.
Just a suggestion.
Cheers,
Jim Lynch