Norm Take a look at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steve_lawther/bourns.htm Bourns has a ACE (absolute contacting encoder) that provides 128 angular postions. Ron B Norm Cramer wrote: > Thought of this but I need to know the position of the pot. It needs to > physically stop at the high limit and physically stop at the low limit. I > couldn't find any encoders that would do this and give me 128 steps. > > At 11:25 AM 1/7/98 -0600, you wrote: > >maybe you should look at an encoder. they require two inputs but are > >digital. > >www.digikey.com lists them starting at about $2.50USD. > > > >michael > > > >