February 24, 2016
Quantum Devices Inc. has a mounting option that allows for IP66 sealing of the QR145 Incremental Encoder. There are two o-rings in the clam shell design; one o-ring seals the encoder to the mounting surface (usually a motor) and the other o-ring seals the end bell housing that covers the...
February 3, 2016
We have always been able to come up with a suitable replacement for Renco encoders, but our customers are making us aware that we need to point that out. For those who don’t know, Renco, after being absorbed by Heidenhain, made the decision to eliminate much of their encoder product...
January 26, 2016
Potentiometer vs Encoder Recently, I decided to catalog the competitive Incremental Encoders that have populated the shelves surrounding my desk. In doing so, I was surprised to find that many of our competitors use potentiometers in their designs. I can understand why they need to use potentiometers. In most designs...
July 19, 2014
O. Another Way to Mount an Optical Encoder Instead of using an end bell, a lot of our motor manufacturer customers recess the QD145 optical encoder into an extended motor housing and then seal the motor with an endplate. This has the advantage of being a lower cost item to...
June 29, 2014
Which Encoder Wires Should I Use to Begin Understanding Incremental Encoder Signals? Channels A & B (Incremental Channels) Use only A (or only B) for an RPM or counting applications where the rotation is either unidirectional, or where you don’t need to know direction. Use A and B together to...
November 20, 2013
The QDH20 Industrial Rotary Encoder is an IP66 sealed encoder made for the rugged duty of an industrial application. Due to the huge array of configuration options, this optical encoder has over 200,000 possible ways that it can be configured. While this is certainly an advantage to an end user...
May 4, 2013
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