Re: Basic electronics help needed / audio pot


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Posted by Just Michael on 29, 2001 at 5:36 PM:

In Reply to: Basic electronics help needed / audio pot posted by buzzdat on 29, 2001 at 4:18 AM:

The way you describe it behaving sounds like it is a linear taper pot and not an audio taper pot. Also have you tried a much smaller pot (like 10K)?

:

: OK, so I picked up a 10w+10w amplifier kit online and put it together tonight. The kit didn't come with any volume control, so I picked up a 100k stereo audio taper pot at the local Radio $hack.

: And can't figure out how to hook the $#@ thing up.

: Did some digging online, found some references re connecting the pot:

: lug 1 - input
: lug 2 - output
: lug 3 - ground

: Which works, except that I only get output at the top 90% of the dial (goes from silent -> quiet -> FREAKIN LOUD)

: So I have some STOOPID questions:

: (1) Is the volume control connected on the INPUT side (line-level) or the OUTPUT side of the amp?

: (2) What is the proper way to connect the volume control?

: Thanks for your help...

: Buzz




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