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OWKaaay, very nice find, that datasheet.

Things are getting a little clearer in my head, but just a little afraid.

So, do I understand this right :

- there is no feedback from this motor.

- The calibration routine sets the fader to zero, or to a known point.

- And from then on, the amount of pulses sent (for recall) or received (moving the fader) determines the position ?

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What you can try maybe is wiring pin 3-4 and 5-6 (assuming 1-2 is motor...) to a DIN in encoder mode

sorry newbie alert, what's a DIN ?  

edit: I think I found my answer http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=encoders

Din is a digital input pin, right?

I need to see this as a motorised rotary encoder ?

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you might be able to drive them with MidiBox NG, but you would need to modify the code i guess

that will be very quickly beyond my abilities, I understand a little in analogue audio electronics, digital signals and programming is new to me.

 

So, I'm afraid this is not a suitable beginner project, :-(

[motorfaders]

thanks for the replys !

I'll try to give better information.

The desk is a stagetec cantus, this desk came out in 1994.

I suppose the faders are custom, I opened one up...

There is no resistive element inside.  So I doubt it's useful for the NG project.

I took some DC measurements :

1-2 = 2,5R

3-4 = 1K2

5-6 = 800k

3-5 , 3-6 , 4-5 , 4-6 when I touch my dmm it starts from +-420k and goes slowly down when I leave my probes on the contacts.

 

[motorfaders]

Thanks Ilmenator, 

please have a look and tell me what you think.

[motorfaders]

Hello, 

I received some fader modules from a scrapped digital mixing desk and I was wondering if it could be made into something useful, like a daw-remote.

That's how I ended up here and started reading some threads.

But the faders that I see being used are different I think to what I have ..?

They're Penny and Giles PGF3200/-/M/-/AX with a motor Faulhaber 2224U006SR

The only contacts are coming out of the motor, six wires, five black and one red.

I don't see how the desk gets any feedback from where the faders are?

Are these any use for an midibox NG ?  

 

Thanks