When a custom design is the solution
What if none of our standard models seem to fit your application needs? Contact us. Sometimes there is a standard model with your specs, and we’ll help you find it. If not, we can design a custom solution – maybe it’s adding a custom CPR to a standard model, or maybe it’s something completely unique altogether. In fact, we currently provide over a thousand custom designs. Our Application Engineering team is ready to support your special requirements.
Examples of custom designs
Commonly, custom requirements include the need for non-standard pinouts, connectors or cables, mounting features like bolt patterns, waveforms, or CPR. Two recent custom projects involved combing two standard products into one.
Stacked encoders for redundant feedback
Our customer needed redundant feedback in a compact package. We specified two of our smaller models – the Model 30M magnetic encoder module, and the optical rotary Model 15T. To reduce the overall stack height, we modified the Model 15T housing so the Model 30M nests inside.
Left: Models 30M (top) and 15T (bottom). Right: The final custom design is ∅1.5" and 1.5" high. By nesting the Model 30M in the Model 15T's housing, the unit's stack height was reduced by 0.1 inch (inset).
Programmable linear measurement with a draw wire
Our customer required the flexibility of a programmable encoder with draw wire capability. Because we already manufacture the Linear Cable Adaptor (LCA) – a 50" draw wire unit designed to pair with a Cube encoder – we could adapt the draw wire component to accept the Model 25SP programmable encoder instead of the Cube.
Left: LCA integrated with Model 25SP programmable encoder and mounting bracket. Right: Linear Cable Adaptor (LCA) and Model 25SP with programming interface.
