[sdiy] PCB mounted pots for MOTM-style prototyping board

[David Brown]

The BI Technology potentiometers work great.  Digikey now sells three values for these.  I bought mine direct with a minimum order quantity of 240.  My parts page has the part number I bought and the part numbers at Digikey.
http://modularsynthesis.com/modules/parts/parts.htm

Dave


-----Original Message-----
>From: lanterma at ece.gatech.edu
>Sent: May 2, 2011 1:24 PM
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] PCB mounted pots for MOTM-style prototyping board
>
>Dear SDIYers,
>
>I got a bunch of these for my students to use:
>
>http://www.synthtech.com/testcart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=256
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>Most of them are in the soldering stage.
>
>I know Paul uses uberquality, uberexpensive pots - but I won't even know what final soldered modules are working until the end of the week (often not everyone gets their soldered board fully debugged by the time grades are due) right now, so I don't want to put a ton of $$$ into pots of something that we may or may not ever get working.
>
>So less expensive pots, such as Alphas, would be good. 
>
>Any recommendations?
>
>In particular, they need to be PCB mounted, but need to have the "center" of the pot travel running perpendicular to the connector legs. I'm not sure how to specify that; most such PCB mounted pots seem to have their "center" running in parallel, which I guess is typical for most typical studio rack gear, which has horizontal instead of vertical form factors.
>
>- Aaron
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