Adjustable pots, potentialmeter?
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Topic: Adjustable pots, potentialmeter?
Posted By: noyu
Subject: Adjustable pots, potentialmeter?
Date Posted: June 05, 2006 at 12:50 PM
I need to finish my current project and I need to find or build an adjustable unit which capable to adjust from about 829 ohms to about 2.66k and I was thinking of using a 680 ohms resistor inline with a 2 k potentialmeter (adjstable pot) so that way I wouldn't go beyond the 2.66k max but still okay on the low side at 680ohms.
However, after spoken to a friend of mind and he told me a 2k pot doesn't neccessary measure 0 ohm at its lowest setting.
Can someone confirm that?If that's the case is there any other alternative to get around this?
Thank you guys for your help!
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Posted By: boug0752
Date Posted: June 05, 2006 at 7:06 PM
Obviously everything that we build will have some type of resistance. I really don't know what the actual resistance of the 2k pot is but it cannot be 0. Good luck in finding your answer.
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