[sdiy] As the Pot Turns

[Ray Wilson]

Kyle

Generally you'll have coarse and fine pots for oscillator tuning. The coarse 
pot will tune from way low to way high (ten octaves). The fine pot will tune 
a couple of semitones. It's way cheaper than buying precision multi turn 
pots.

Ray


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Stephens" <lightburnx at yahoo.com>
To: "Synth-DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:30 PM
Subject: [sdiy] As the Pot Turns


> I'm fixing to get some VCO fine tuner pots, though I've a pair of 
> questions.
>
> One, how many turns is enough: 3 turn or 5 turn? 10 turn possibly even 
> (...20??)? Though that much I imagine would get somewhat redundant.
>
> Two, where can I get 100Ks (be it 3, 5, or possibly 10) on the cheap? New 
> I've seen them for $10-20, and even at surplus prices I've seen $10/ea. - 
> I hope things can get lower than that. I Googled around and found some 10 
> turns at $4.95 each, but they were out of stock (and again, 10 turns may 
> be too much).
>
>
> _Kyle
>
>
>
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