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

[Tom Wiltshire]

You mean pointing up in the same direction as the shaft?

You can mount them through a hole in the PCB like that, but the threaded bush isn't likely to be long enough to fit easily to a panel as well.

T.

On 27 Aug 2010, at 13:15, cheater cheater wrote:

> What about bending the legs the other way?
> 
> D.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 13:44, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> 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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