[sdiy] Anybody worked with real Moog System 55 ?

[Graham Atkins]

On 28 Sep 2010, at 18:35, Jean-Pierre Desrochers wrote:

>> JP, those pots are military-grade.  Why do you think they won't be
>> good enough?  Is it just that they have been around for a long time?
>> These are high-spec very robust - and expensive - pots, way overkill
>> for controlling a *mere* analogue oscillator.
>
> I was wondering not for robustness but for
> temperature/humidity wiper reading stability.

Any pot that did exhibit such problems wouldn't be much use in any
application. It isn't as if it will be used outside in a Mil  
application like
a (Tim !) servo on a gun positioning system where a moisture sealed
pot would be needed.

Graham