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Trimmer to pot

Started by Guybrush, March 03, 2014, 09:03:15 PM

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Guybrush

Hey all

After ballsing up my first attempt, I'm having another go at Music PCB's Tap Tempo Tremolo.

I've decided to wire the internal volume trimmer as an external volume pot. Just wondering how to go about this. The build doc says to use a 25K A pot but doesn't say how to connect it. Do the trimmer's PCB pads correspond to a pots lugs as I've numbered below or have I mixed things up?



Thanks in advance.

selfdestroyer

#1
This might help
Edit:
Just realized how stupid my help was.. lol

Cody

brucer

Hi Guybrush.

I'm a newbie, but I understand trim pot pins are numbered like this:

  2
1  3  (see this: https://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/assets/6/3/e/5/e/511ac8f5ce395f5846000000.png

Looking at your PCB picture, that would reverse 1 and 3.  Looking down on the knob of a linear pot, pins 1, 2 and 3 are numbered left to right (see http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/Pots/images/Potentiometer-Lug-Numberes.png).

Hope that helps, hope I'm right!  At least the links might send you in the right direction!

Bruce.

Guybrush

Thanks for the replies and advice.

Looks like the way I've numbered it the pot would work in reverse. I'll switch lugs 1 and 3 round.

Thanks again.