[sdiy] As the Pot Turns

[Kyle Stephens]

My VCOs aren't all the way built yet, just checking for options to tweak the most out of them - seems multiturn pots are more than I need in any case.


_Kyle



--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Kevin <kevingeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin <kevingeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] As the Pot Turns
> To: lightburnx at yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 12:17 AM
> Have you tried using a single turn pot and found it to not
> be good  
> enough for fine tuning?
> 
> I have several different VCO modules and I don't think
> any of them use  
> multi turn pots on the front panel.
> 
> For trimmers that calibrate the VCO, yes, but not on the
> panel.
> 
> http://www.futurlec.com/PotRot.shtml
> 
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 10:30 PM, Kyle Stephens wrote:
> 
> > 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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