Peter L. Peres wrote:
> I have researched
> variable capacitor position and angle sensing thoroughly enough to be able
> to say that it works iff you find a way to reduce the sensing input
> capacitance 10 to 20 times (from what is a normal IC input cap. of 5pF).
> It turns out that this is VERY HARD to do lacking specialised parts. A

Again I say use the cap to drive an osc, divide freq
via hardware (counter chip) or via PIC prescaler etc
and test freq against the PIC clock. All system
capacitances are negated provided you can calibrate
the system degrees/freq which will have to be done
anyway. :o)
-Roman

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