[sdiy] Vertical PCB Mount Pots (With panel mount)... Any options?!

[Dave Kendall]

With Alpha pots, the legs won't clear the back housing of the pot if 
bent back 90 degrees. They are too short...
Omeg ECO pots will just about do it though.

P.S. - Rapid electronics is the cheapest I've found for alpha-style 
pots, if you're in the UK. You need to buy in bulk though, or wait for 
one of their occasional "end column pricing" bargain days.

cheers,
Dave
On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:44, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> With most pots that only works if you're mounting them on the edge of 
> the PCB, but I guess you could cut holes if you wanted them in the 
> centre. Still, if small bear have them for $1, what's the point in 
> messing about?
>
> T.
>
> On 27 Aug 2010, at 12:16, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> You take normal pots and bend the legs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> D.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50, Mike Beauchamp 
>> <mikebeauchamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I was thinking for my next project of doing PCB mounted pots to save
>>> on some soldering, but the only ones I've seen would orient the board
>>> perpendicular to the panel. I'd like to use some PCB mounted pots 
>>> that
>>> mount vertically so the PCB and panel are parallel.
>>>
>>> So, does anyone have a favourite vertical pcb mount pot with threads
>>> to mount onto a panel? It has to be synth worthy too.. previously 
>>> I've
>>> been happy with Alpha pots at the very least. I've found a few 
>>> online,
>>> but only rather small with plastic shafts. I'll probably just need
>>> 10K, 100K, 1M in linear and log. The only worthy candidates I've seen
>>> are the ones in my old Deluxe Memory Man :)
>>>
>>> Thanks guys!
>>>
>>> Mike
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