[sdiy] Dual pot search....

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In a message dated 4/7/04 12:58:20 PM, synth at oldmail.charlielamm.com writes:

<< 
--Does anyione know where to get these dual independent pots?  Cheap?  
Surplus?  Etc? >>

Hello Charlie,

You might look at Stewart-Macdonald, the guitar maker's catalog superstore (
<A HREF="http://www.stewmac.com/">http://www.stewmac.com/</A>).  They have a 
few dual concentric pots in their offerings.  Unfortunately, they don't have a 
lot of values available -- just the ones that are typically useful in electric 
guitars and basses (usually 250K and 500K, maybe one or two other values).  If 
yoo're using the pots as simple voltage dividers, you can probably get away 
with using just about any value of linear pot (from around 10K to 500K).  If 
you're using them as variable resistors, then you'll have to be more picky.  
It's also possible to order dual concentric pots From Roland as spare parts for 
BOSS pedals.  They have a lot of different values of dual pots in those pedals. 
 Nice knobs that go with them, too.  Prices are not great, but definitely 
better than, say, buying one from Bourns or Spectrol.  Good luck.

Michael Bacich