[sdiy] Centre tapped pots

Tim Daugard daugard at sprintmail.com
Sat Nov 4 18:25:10 CET 2006


From: "John Mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>

> >Don't know if that does what you want...controls both gain and
> >offset...both positive and negative...
>
> Can a dead zone be created in the middle of the offset pot's travel,
> perhaps by using diodes after R7 to create voltage drops on either


Here's my tupence:

http://home.earthlink.net/~synthfred/h_odc101.htm

I haven't built this, but it should provide a dead zone in the middle of the pot range. As
I was typing this I realized you can also customize where the dead zone is by adjusting
the values of R1 and R2.

Tim Daugard
AG4GZ 30.4078N 86.6227W Alt: 12 feet above MSL
http://home.sprintmail.com/~daugard/synth.htm

. . . and John, thanks for the note.



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