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...
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A digital potentiometer (also called a resistive digital-to-analog converter, or informally a digipot) is a digitally-controlled electronic component...
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A motorized potentiometer combines a potentiometer with an electric motor. Motorized potentiometers can be found in audio/video equipment, specifically...
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A potentiometer is an instrument for measuring voltage or 'potential difference' by comparison of an unknown voltage with a known reference voltage. If...
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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...
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Trimmer (electronics) (redirect from Trimmer potentiometer)
adjusted by the device's user. Trimmers can be variable resistors (potentiometers), variable capacitors, or trimmable inductors. They are common in precision...
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Panning (audio) (redirect from Panoramic potentiometer)
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...
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Resistor (section Potentiometers)
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...
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POKEY (section Potentiometers)
5200 console. POKEY combines functions for reading paddle controllers (potentiometers) and computer keyboards as well as sound generation and a source for...
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List of resistors (section Potentiometers)
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...
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Linear encoder Rotary encoder Potentiometer Proximity sensor (optical) String potentiometer (also known as a string potentiometer, string encoder or cable...
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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...
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ANSI‑style: (a) Resistor, (b) Rheostat, (c) Potentiometer / Trimmer IEC‑style: (a) Resistor, (b) Rheostat, (c) Potentiometer / Trimmer Photoresistor (ANSI) Thermistor...
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rotary encoder or a potentiometer to form a servomechanism. This assembly may in turn form part of another servomechanism. A potentiometer provides a simple...
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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...
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phase. Instruments for measuring voltages include the voltmeter, the potentiometer, and the oscilloscope. Analog voltmeters, such as moving-coil instruments...
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amount of bend it is used as goniometer, and often called flexible potentiometer. Conductive ink based flex sensor Fibre optic flex sensor Capacitive...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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California in 1947. Their invention of linear motion and vane position potentiometers provided a method of accurately determining an aircraft's pitch, and...
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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...
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selection. At their simplest, these consist of passive components, such as potentiometers and capacitors, but may also include specialized integrated circuits...
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a simple voltage divider). Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. The Wheatstone bridge was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie (sometimes...
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lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable capacitor Varicap Passive Connector audio and video...
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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...
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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...
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Laser trimming (section Trimming potentiometers)
simpler to substitute the potentiometer or the SOT part with a trimmable chip resistor or chip capacitor, and the potentiometer adjusting screwdriver is...
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for guitar. Morley pedals use electro-optical circuitry rather than a potentiometer to control the effect. The foot treadle controls a shutter inside the...
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Holtz's electrostatic machine. In 1841 he described the use of the potentiometer for measurement of electrical potentials without current draw. Poggendorf...
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