switch or potenteometer

nitrorc2332 · Post by **nitrorc2332** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:38 pm

is this a switch or potenteometer? it looks kinda like a potenteometer but after looking at it it may be a switch. i found it in a box of electronic stuff.
i just used my webcam instead of my digicam bc i am lazy. lol.

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payaso · Post by **payaso** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:46 pm

Does not look like a "POT" to me, but maybe it's the pic.

silla

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:46 pm

Switches and pots serve similar purposes, but a switch just turn things off and on, and a pot can do it to varying degrees. (Just to oversimplify things)

So I believe that is some kind of pot, though from what little I can see from the pictures, it looks like it just may have 4 positions, so the question is; is it gonna work for whatever you need to do?

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:49 pm

payaso wrote:Does not look like a "POT" to me, but maybe it's the pic.

silla

Your right.....as usaual.

"POT" is GREEN!!!!

nitrorc2332 · Post by **nitrorc2332** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:58 am

thanks for the help. i looked on the RS website and found this

it looks like the same thing i have. it says it is a horazontal style trimmer. so that is the same thing as a POT right?

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:22 am

yes, that is a potentiometer (pot). more precisely it's a variable resistor.