[sdiy] Cooking pots

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Erik Dower
<electronicpresskit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone here tried to get increased resistance on pots by intentionally driving them with too much current and burning off the conductive material?
>
> I've got a circuit with quad 20k pots and I need to add some resistance to one side of one path.  The exact value isn't critical.
>
> epk

Yeah, that sounds like a Really Bad Idea. How about using the 20K pot
to drive a vactrol (or homebrew LED / photocell combo)? With a
photocell and a fixed resistor in parallel, you should be able to get
pretty much any resistance you want.


Tim (I'LL be the one proposing the really bad ideas around here, thank
you) Servo
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