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

[cheater cheater]

OK. Guess I am used to a different kind of potentiometer. The bourns
pots for example allow that:
http://www.cyfronika.com.pl/bourns_mini.htm . Also the Vishay Spectrol
pots have terminals on the underside - but they're fairly expensive.
But good.
http://www.cyfronika.com.pl/vishay_mini.htm
Also here are some alps ones made specifically for upright mounting,
they're very good because they have a mechanical mount which you
solder to the pcb for stability:
http://www.cyfronika.com.pl/alps_mini.htm  (the Vishay pots only have
3 leads but the leads are hefty; the bourns pots have no special
mounting and the leads are fairly delicate)

Cheers,
D.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 14:38, Matthias Herrmann-DEU
<Matthias.Herrmann at jeppesen.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl]
>> On Behalf Of cheater cheater
>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 2:16 PM
>> To: Tom Wiltshire
>> Cc: sdiy DIY
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Vertical PCB Mount Pots (With panel mount)... Any options?!
>>
>> What about bending the legs the other way?
>>
>> D.
>
> yeah, the legs of common 16mm alphas are too short to bend them in direction of the pots body. so the only way would be to bend them in direction of the shaft and mount the pot upside-down. then one would have to drill a large hole for the potentiometers shaft to go right through the PCB. however, I believe the shaft and thread of the common alpha pot (with 15mm shaft) will then not be long enough to mount the PCB to the panel... I think I have seen this method somewhere, alas, I can't remember what project it was...
>
> cheers,
> matthias
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>> 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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