rotary encoder question

[mikee]

hi there everyone.

I got a part which I am trying to identify, I wonder if anyone has some info:

Rotary encoder with 8 connections.

Two knobs: Outside knob is centered and spring biased rather like old synth pitch bend control.

Inner knob is standard Rotary encoder action.

The only markings on the thing is as follows:

j (then what seems to be an i in a circle) 5M 14.

No switch is fitted.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks all.

[avogra]

sounds like an encoder with turn-buttons to me. maybe with 2 way speed like on some video-recorders. where you can rewind, fast rewind (turning left) or forward, fast forward (turning right).

that would make:

encoder: 3 pins

4 buttons: 4+1 pins

voila!  8)

[mikee]

yeah thanks for that avogra .

It seems that the control in question is from a broken Pro-DJ CD/karioki thing. (Soundlab G064E8).

There are also a couple of sweet blue backlit LCD displays which seem to be intended for track position, pause, FF,REW, speed, etc etc. Pity about these not being a couple of lines of text.

The controller chip also encodes up to 30 keys, and outputs data in serial form. What a shame so much technology is wasted.

Thanks again for info.

[avogra]

hehe :D that video-recorder thing just jumped into my mind, as i tried to repair one some days ago :)

cheers! n tell us what you will use it for!

Alex