Pot question

harrybissell at prodigy.net harrybissell at prodigy.net
Mon Oct 18 23:54:48 CEST 1999


The "two linear segment" audio taper is by far the most common... its hard to get true tapered pots.

For the common "Volume control" you would not notice... but for (lets say) Attack Time... you would tell right away.

:^( Harry 'been there done that...' Bissell


 ---- On Oct 18 Buck Buchanan <voltagecontrolled at home.com> wrote: 
> 
> > This is interesting !
> > Is there a web page where these differences are displayed ?
> > 
> > JH.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In the Digi-Key catalog for the Panasonic Audio Pots there is a little
> graph.  It seems to show the D as slightly different from their regular
> audio taper.  Interesting to me that both graphs show "audio tapers"
> that look more like "2 stage" linear tapers with kind of an elbow in
> there.  Is this normal for most brands or particular to Panasonic?  Just
> curious.
> 
> C-ya,  Buck






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