See here:
http://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntt=594-149-7104These are the Vishay/Spectrol MOTM sealed pots. $5.67 each in 50
quantity. If we assume the Alpha pots cost less than $1.00 each in
quantity, then lets say the additional cost would be roughly $5.00 per
pot times 7 pots, or about $35 additional cost per module.
I just bought one of those pots, and by golly it is white, just like
Paul said. Same part number as the black ones we are used to. They are
physically smaller, too. They might even fit the panel depth needed on
the ZO (which is another reason to have chosen the Alphas -- the
Spectrols would have been too deep).
Richard Brewster
http://www.pugix.comJay wrote:
> John Loffink wrote:
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>> It is a nice module, but the pots appear to be 24mm Alphas unsealed carbon
>> composition, not the high quality Spectrol sealed plastic or cermet
>> composition potentiometers as on MOTM modules.
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> I'm sure that would have added another $200 to the module. She used a
> multi turn sealed pot in the one place where it should be, and that's
> the tune pot. At over $9 each now, the MOTM sealed pots are just
> overkill when everyone else is using 50 cent Alphas that seem to work
> just fine. Not to mention they feel better too. Is nobody buying Modcan
> B series modules because they use 24mm Alphas? Even Paul is using carbon
> pots the Frac Rac modules. I've already had a bad Spectrol pot, never an
> Alpha.
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