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 that can range continuously...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

and consists of a grey folded metal casing with an on/off switch, a potentiometer controlling the boost setting, and in- and output jacks. It was designed...

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for a hybrid striped bass Wiper, a term for the moving contact on a potentiometer Wiper, another brand name for the Lawnbott Scott Wiper (born 1970),...

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

fan control, potentiometers could be used along with a transistor such as a MOSFET whose output voltage is controlled by the potentiometer. It is possible...

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...

RDAC may refer to: Digital potentiometer, also known as a Resistive Digital-to-Analog Converter Radioactinium, abbreviated RdAc, a name given at one time...

[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...