hi there everyone.
I got a part which I am trying to identify, I wonder if anyone has some info:
Rotary encoder with 8 connections.
Two knobs: Outside knob is centered and spring biased rather like old synth pitch bend control.
Inner knob is standard Rotary encoder action.
The only markings on the thing is as follows:
j (then what seems to be an i in a circle) 5M 14.
No switch is fitted.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks all.
sounds like an encoder with turn-buttons to me. maybe with 2 way speed like on some video-recorders. where you can rewind, fast rewind (turning left) or forward, fast forward (turning right).
that would make:
encoder: 3 pins
4 buttons: 4+1 pins
voila! 8)
yeah thanks for that avogra .
It seems that the control in question is from a broken Pro-DJ CD/karioki thing. (Soundlab G064E8).
There are also a couple of sweet blue backlit LCD displays which seem to be intended for track position, pause, FF,REW, speed, etc etc. Pity about these not being a couple of lines of text.
The controller chip also encodes up to 30 keys, and outputs data in serial form. What a shame so much technology is wasted.
Thanks again for info.
hehe 
that video-recorder thing just jumped into my mind, as i tried to repair one some days ago 
cheers! n tell us what you will use it for!
Alex