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Technotron slip rings

Slip rings are connectors that can rotate 360 degrees an infinite number of times and still maintain multiple connections. They're used any time you need to have a rotating part in a device that has electrical contacts on it. They are normally expensive and hard to find. Jin Yo Mok, who has some experience with them, offered the following link:

Jin-Yo found a very small and light slip ring with 12 circuits from Technotron. Here is a picture of it.. It's $125. Compared to Mercotac's, it's cheaper and much smaller, and this has 12 contacts! If you need a lot of circuits going in to a rotating shaft in a compact design, this may help.

Thanks to JinYo for the link.

Posted by tigoe at September 17, 2004 07:59 AM