AVR-Chat

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Robert Adsett wrote:

> 
> OK, I've a couple of alternatives in mind that you may want to take a look at.
> 
> I recently went through looking for rotary position sensors.  I was looking
> for something rugged since they will end up at the top of a tower with
> limited access and moist conditions.  It also had to support a full 360degs
> and continuous, although slow, rotation and it had to give absolute
> position at power-up to within a degree or so.  Also I wanted to limit the
> number of wires running up and down the tower. That appears to limit the
> field to rather pricey alternatives (>$300).
> 

This is sort of distantly related to the topic.  Have any of you ever done 
anything with a flux gate compass?

Zack