Have the knob mounted to Lexan and then a gear drive to connect the Potentiometer. Would get many options, and visualizations would be pretty cool (I mean as long as we are hacking, go crazy).

Figure 1 shows the traditional potentiometer containing many mechanical and electrical components (a), the operational diagram of the traditional pot vs. the AS5600 solution (b), and an AS5600 ...

[Lee] wrote in to share the work he’s done in building a controller for his soldering iron. The idea started when he was working with an ATX power supply. He figured if it works as a makeshif… ...

The PET membrane potentiometer is usually operated by using a mechanical wiper with a surface pressure ranging from 0.7N to 3N, but the potentiometer can also be operated by hand. Due to the ...

If a particular potentiometer has 12 volts going into it, moving its sensing arm through its full range of motion could change output voltage from, say, 1.3 volts to 10.5 volts.

The normal potentiometer has three connections; one for each end and one for the variable position in the middle. For this device, only two are used (the middle one and one of the ends).

The Series 2699 geared dancer roll potentiometer from Nireco America Corp. is a heavy-duty, high-precision, geared potentiometer that is designed to produce dancer roll position feedback signals.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Crompton Potentiometer for Electrical Measurements with Direct Current Supply ” in SA Supplements Vol. 55 No. 1428supp (May 1903), p ...