Re: 10k potentiometer for Omega Race Spinner

From: James R. Twine <jtwine_at_jrtwine.com>
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 15:52:36 EDT

Quoting Matt Rossiter <rossiter@ni.net>:
>
> [...] In actuality, it's a single turn pot but it doesn't have
> a stopper. So, once it does a full turn the resistance goes
> back to zero and round and round it goes.

   Interesting... Most (all?) of the single-turn pots that I have seen all had
a "band" (what the wiper makes contact with) that never went in a *complete*
circle. They always were in a kinda-sorta-open-horseshoe shape (or more like
the letter "C" rotated 90 degrees). As such, without the stopper in place, the
pot would have a "dead zone" of infinite resistance while the wiper was over
the "open" part of the pot...

   I have never seen a single-turn one that went "all the way around".

   Peace!

> Matt

-=- James.
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