[sdiy] spring reverb and pots

Tom May tom at tommay.net
Thu Mar 22 18:13:57 CET 2001


Nicholas Pelkey <njpguy at icqmail.com> writes:

> Two quickies.
> 
> I was about to order pots for my ASM-1 faceplate.  I'm either
> ordering through Radio Shacks or Mouser.. and will probably be using
> 100k linear.... one thing that the Radio Shack guy stumped me with
> was he had asked "how many amps?"  I never see much mentioned
> assides from 100k and linear.  So my question is what are the other
> recommended specs for pots asides from 100k, linear (or multi-turn)?

I put a lot of time into figuring out what pots to use and what, if
any, resistors to use in series with them, etc.  See the "Panel
Controls" section of http://www.you-bastards.com/asm-1/ to see what I
came up with.

Wattage doesn't matter.

fTom.



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