Leo,
It's certainly more compact, but on the other hand, it's almost 50% more costly, plus, with Trumeter, I just take a leisurely drive down to Deerfield Beach and combine the trip with a burger and a cold beer at an oceanfront restaurant for about what Mouser would whack me for shipping.
Also, and this is big, it needs an external power supply, and has no built-in reset. In the past I've used a $20 counter where I had to supply, mount and wire in those components and it wasn't worth the savings...plus, it made the package bulkier than the 7111. The only advantage the Mouser has over the %20 one is that it'll take a high speed input. As you've found out, the pedometers won't. This is of value when you want to count remaining turns. You can spin them off as fast as they'll go and the counter picks them all up. Cheap counters are limited to 10-12hz.
And Trumeter's 9mm numbers are 50% taller, which is worth something when you get old like me.
Art.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "leop12345" <leop@...> wrote:
>
> A smaller electronic up/down counter is Electronic Assembly's EA 2022N. They can be obtained from Mouser:
>
> http://www.mouser.com/
>
> Jusr search for EA2022N.
>
> They had cost about $27 each with shipping in the Fall of 2009 but I see the price has about doubled. So, I guess that miniature electronic counters will go the way of miniature mechanical counters and disappear while getting very expensive.
>
> One cheap way to count input winds (up only) is to use a cheap pedometer (such as the $1 kind at Dollar Tree) and rig up a switch to the internal pendulum contacts. This works for me and many others.
>
> Leo
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Phedon Tsiknopoulos <phedon21t@> wrote:
> >
> > Art, Thanks for the counter info. I really needed a good counter and you showed
> > me a great counter. The dimensions on mine are, 1 by 2 by 2 inches. Ciao,
> > Phedon.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: art <aholt11552_at_>
> > To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 1:56:29 PM
> > Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Winding Question
> >
> >
> > The basic unit is 3.5" wide. 1.8" high and 1.1" deep. The counter is compact but
> > I angle it with the face tilted toward the user, so it adds 1.6 to the width.
> > The crank has a 2" throw and the hook extends 2.8 from the back face.
> > The counter is here...
> >
> > http://www.trumeter.com/Home.php?class=Process+Control+%26+Instrumentation&app=Bottle+and+can+counting&item=7111&lang=English
> >
> >
> > I asked them if they could make one with half the digits at half the price, but
> > no go. It's still the most performance per dollar that I've seen.
> >
> > The winder looks like this except the genuine teak handle is now replaced by
> > silicone rubber...
> > http://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php?topic=3650.180
> > Go to page 7 reply 187.
> >
> > Art.
> >
>
Received on Tue Feb 22 2011 - 20:56:11 CET