[sdiy] Quetion on pot substitution

patchell patchell at silcom.com
Tue Aug 28 01:16:04 CEST 2001


    This is probably not a big deal.  Generally 100K pots are choosen
because it offers a nice, low current draw.  If all it has to do is be a
voltage divider, 125K will not cause any problems.

TooManySynths wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am building/converting several projects for modular
> use and I have a question regarding pot values.
> Almost all schematics call for 100k linear pots on the
> cv inputs.  I have a boatload of 125k linear pots and
> was hoping to use them.  Specifically, how will this
> affect performance of cv inputs.
>
> Thanks
> Daryl
>
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