| ??? 11/17/13 01:02 Read: times |
#190143 - (was) incorrect Responding to: ???'s previous message |
They invariantly assume the potentiometer is used as a voltage divider with no load on the wiper.
in the olden days, before SCRs and TRIACs potentiometers were quite often used as light dimmers. I have seen a 60W bulb dimmed by a potentiometer. Todat it might be your dashboard lights Erik |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Power rating of potentiometers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not the point | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| show me such | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| (was) incorrect | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not your average "pot" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Specs that are not normally told.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| power | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| test bench vs field design | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That was kind of my point | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| pot limits | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| While I don't disagree ... there are different failure modes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bourns says: "yes." | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Tesla says: no | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| cermet or wirewound | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
No big difference, if it all | 01/01/70 00:00 |