DIGITAL VERNIER

If you are talking about those "cheap Chinese Scales", the answer is yes and yes. If you peel off the sticker (with the numbers) from the beam, you will discover a PCB with a comb-like pattern. You can peel that PCB off and stick it to whatever you want. You can even make your own PCB.

Here's a modification of such a vernier:

And here a bit more pictures of the various parts:

HTH, Nick

Hi,

Is this what you mean?

Like that but at less costs ie DIY job "Malcolm Stewart" wrote in message news:458b90f2$0$15453$ snipped-for-privacy@free.teranews.com...

The bar isn't just steel, it's got a carefully-patterned PCB under the plastic strip.It might be possible to reproduce that but it isn't as easy as it first appears.

See this page (owned by a regular contributor to this group) for more detailed description :

-adrian

That verynear looks familiar. You didn't get it from Liddl for a small handfull of Euros did you?

Mark Rand RTFM

They were from Lidl, Aldi and Penny. The real ones (read: longer) from Wabeco and RC-Machines. But they are basically all the same.

Nick