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

[David G. Dixon]

> 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...

...but Alpha makes proper parallel-mount pots: RV16AF-41.  The flat back of
the pot ends up sitting on top of the PCB (or just a smidgen above it).