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<div class="elementToProof" role="presentation">My more immediate concern is figuring out a way to mount slide potentiometers to the panel PCBs, given that they are mostly too short. Why can’t they just make panel components to a standard depth (like mini-toggle
switches and pots)? Why do they make it so hard to build things easily? That’s not the way I was taught to engineer things.</div>
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There are actually two standard heights for most of these components. If you want to use both with a flat front panel there is usually some wiring arrangement joining two parts of a PCB that snaps apart and then bends into position.</div>
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<b>From:</b> Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org> on behalf of Dixon, David via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 August 2026 03:46<br>
<b>To:</b> synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Retractable mini pots</div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt;">Well, after reading all of your suggestions and having absolutely no luck finding anything suitable on the web, I have decided to just use regular old boring mini pots. After all, I typically eschew fancy, fussy things in my electronics
work. The idea is to get something that works with a minimum of fuss and cost.<br>
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If I do eventually find something, I can simply swap out the mini pots. I am building the DS-3100 panel in a somewhat modular format, with “islands” of circuitry mounted directly onto the back of the panel. Hence, it will be easy to change any of the “modules.”<br>
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My more immediate concern is figuring out a way to mount slide potentiometers to the panel PCBs, given that they are mostly too short. Why can’t they just make panel components to a standard depth (like mini-toggle switches and pots)? Why do they make it
so hard to build things easily? That’s not the way I was taught to engineer things.<br>
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