Good, cheap pots?

[Stewart Pye]

At 03:36 PM 9/07/99 -0700, Sean Costello wrote:
>I am looking for a source of some good, cheap pots for a modular. I
>would love to use the Harry Davis 1900-H knobs, so whatever size pots
>would fit this would be great. I'm sure this has been discussed many
>times before, but I don't have access to my email archives here at work,
>so it would be great to get a few recommendations (or links). Is Mouser
>a good source? Any recommended model numbers? Other sources?
>
>If someone were to create a FAQ, this would be a good topic...

I've grown a liking for the small Alps pots. There only about $1.20AUD from
farnell. Only problem is they don't go up to 1M (not at farnell anyway),
and they're really only good for PCB mounting, and They have a 6mm shaft
that's hard to find nice knobs for. Great if you can fit your electronics
inbetween the pots though. It makes for a neat little PCB. BIG components
can be monted on the underside.

>Sean Costello (for some reason, summertime makes me want to do analog
>DIY, as opposed to digital DIY. Something about wanting to create
>physical items, instead of some collection of ones and zeroes)

Same here....
My reason is that my workshop is in a shed and it gets cold in the winter.
I do my microcontroller programming inside. I have to wait for a Sunny day
to build the development board then I'm set. I can't wait for summer :)
And I live in Sunny? Queensland. As someone taking the piss out of an
advertising campaign once said: "Queensland, beautiful one day, pissing
down rain the next"

Stewart