After Betatronix had been designing and manufacturing custom-made potentiometers for the military and aerospace industry for many years, animation industry engineers became aware of our capabilities and solicited our expertise for their products. With the help of these engineers, Betatronix developed a complete line of both linear motion and rotary potentiometers for the animation industry. These offered the same high level of performance and reliability as our military products, but the designs stressed ruggedness and eliminated the need for precision "military-type" mounting in lab-type environments. In other words, this product line is designed to be installed by servicemen in an amusement park, not engineers in a clean room.

Our custom design capabilities give animation engineers greater flexibility and the ability to achieve more imaginative designs than were possible using standard, off-the-shelf potentiometers with sub-par reliability and performance. Betatronix was the first to offer the animation industry a precision 3/8" diameter linear motion potentiometer, and today we are the only manufacturer to offer a 1/4" diameter precision potentiometer with a proven history of usage. Our linear motion potentiometers are available with electrical strokes starting at 1/16" and continuing to 6 feet. Our rotary potentiometers are available with electrical angles starting at 30 degrees and continuing up to 359.5 degrees. Both our linear motion and rotary potentiometers are available with terminals, flexible cables, standard Teflon or vinyl lead wires and miniaturized connectors.

Over the years, Betatronix has developed for the military special shaft seals and hermetically sealed terminal header assemblies. These technologies have been available to the animation industry in the form of a potentiometer that operates under water.

Among the most notable applications of our animation products have been controlling the movements of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and robots on NASA space platforms, as well as in Universal Studio's E.T. In the robotics field, we have contributed to the fully-automated Robotic Gas Pump Attendant and have enhanced the robotic movements on NASA's space platform.