A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. If only two terminals are used...

A digital potentiometer (also called a resistive digital-to-analog converter, or informally a digipot) is a digitally-controlled electronic component...

A motorized potentiometer combines a potentiometer with an electric motor. Motorized potentiometers can be found in audio/video equipment, specifically...

A potentiometer is an instrument for measuring voltage or 'potential difference' by comparison of an unknown voltage with a known reference voltage. If...

A string potentiometer is a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool. Other common...

adjusted by the device's user. Trimmers can be variable resistors (potentiometers), variable capacitors, or trimmable inductors. They are common in precision...

incoming source channel. A pan control or pan pot (short for "panning potentiometer") is an analog control with a position indicator which can range continuously...

ANSI-style: (a) resistor, (b) rheostat (variable resistor), and (c) potentiometer IEC resistor symbol The notation to state a resistor's value in a circuit...

5200 console. POKEY combines functions for reading paddle controllers (potentiometers) and computer keyboards as well as sound generation and a source for...

Linear encoder Rotary encoder Potentiometer Proximity sensor (optical) String potentiometer (also known as a string potentiometer, string encoder or cable...

control in an audio device is a common application of a potentiometer. A typical low power potentiometer (see drawing) is constructed of a flat resistance element...

Racing wheels started off as simple plastic wheels hooked up to a rotary potentiometer, which were sprung by springs or bungees. These spring-based wheels...

ANSI‑style: (a) Resistor, (b) Rheostat, (c) Potentiometer / Trimmer IEC‑style: (a) Resistor, (b) Rheostat, (c) Potentiometer / Trimmer Photoresistor (ANSI) Thermistor...

rotary encoder or a potentiometer to form a servomechanism. This assembly may in turn form part of another servomechanism. A potentiometer provides a simple...

by movement of the player's foot on a rocking pedal connected to a potentiometer. Wah-wah effects may be used without moving the treadle as a fixed filter...

phase. Instruments for measuring voltages include the voltmeter, the potentiometer, and the oscilloscope. Analog voltmeters, such as moving-coil instruments...

amount of bend it is used as goniometer, and often called flexible potentiometer. Conductive ink based flex sensor Fibre optic flex sensor Capacitive...

variable resistor (potentiometer). The vane moves in proportion to the momentum of the airflow. A voltage is applied to the potentiometer and a voltage appears...

a transformer or inductor, or along the element of a resistor or a potentiometer. Taps are sometimes used on inductors for the coupling of signals, and...

device that is distantly related to the DAC is the digitally controlled potentiometer, used to control an analog signal digitally. A one-bit mechanical actuator...

California in 1947. Their invention of linear motion and vane position potentiometers provided a method of accurately determining an aircraft's pitch, and...

achieved by cutting the initial attack of the note, either with the volume potentiometer on the guitar or with a volume pedal. Roughly speaking, the sound of...

selection. At their simplest, these consist of passive components, such as potentiometers and capacitors, but may also include specialized integrated circuits...

lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable capacitor Varicap Passive Connector audio and video...

the dashboard The sending unit usually uses a float connected to a potentiometer, typically printed ink design in a modern automobile. As the tank empties...

a simple voltage divider). Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. The Wheatstone bridge was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie (sometimes...

Holtz's electrostatic machine. In 1841 he described the use of the potentiometer for measurement of electrical potentials without current draw. Poggendorf...

Throttle Position Sensor (TPS): a potentiometer or a non-contact sensor Hall Effect sensor (magnetic device). A potentiometer is a satisfactory way for non-critical...

simpler to substitute the potentiometer or the SOT part with a trimmable chip resistor or chip capacitor, and the potentiometer adjusting screwdriver is...

[citation needed] The paddle wheel is usually mechanically coupled to a potentiometer, so as to generate an output voltage level varying with the wheel's...