How Potentiometer Works - Unravel the Mysteries of How potentiometers Work!

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3:42 Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Resistance A type an exponential type instead of an logarithmic one? Exponentials are the inverse of logarithms.

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Well that was an interesting rabbit hole to go down and now my brain hurts. Why do we call them logarithmic when they graph as exponential? Is it just the fact that they're used for audio and loudness is described logarithmicly? As-in we just ended up with this misnomer due to that tradition? Or, more generally speaking, while being graphed exponentially, is it infact aptly named but just from the perspective of the equivalent logarithm because that perspective is more important electrically? And then, is an inverse/anti log pot actually the one that's logarithmic? Or is it still exponential and just rotated 180°? I'm not even sure that question makes sense... Another thing to think about: consider a slider pot where directionality isn't an issue as you can make either end "up". There's a reason there are still log and inverse log versions...you couldn't just wire them backwards. The types differ in whether you have the "fine adjustment" (slow change) portion of the curve near the high resistance area of the pot or the low resistance area. And then practically, it appears these types of pots are more or less actually two linear pots with different "resistance per degree" characteristics stuck end-to-end and are thus only an approximation of said mathematical functions.

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I'm hoping someone can calarify. Why Is the RGB setup at the end using a potentiometer setup ( 17:34 ) and not a rheostat configuration like the example before it at ( 17:13 ) ?

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One amazing potentiometer Uses of a potentiometer 1. Voltage ⚡️💥 2. Temperature ❄️🌫️🔥 3. Volume 🔈🔉🔊 4. Brightness ▪️🔅🔆 5. Speed 🐌🐢🐇 6. Frequency 📡📻 7. pitch 🎼

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In the radio and TV biz, audio faders are often called “pots”, which is short for potentiometer.

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Great video! One question, I think I've seen led lights and other things also dim from a lower voltage, but at the end you were dimming that led with the current. Is there a more correct way of doing it or are both good options depending on what you fancy?

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Two potentiometer variants not discussed here are L-pads, and tapped potentiometers. L-pads use a pair of intentionally mismatched, differing resistance-tapered elements (usually wirewound) in order to maintain a relatively constant impedance or resistance to the driver circuit/device regardless of the setting of the L-pad; These are often used as remote volume controls for speakers in other rooms, or as level-setting devices for tweeters or mid ranges, because the power loss (due to a non-optimal impedance loading to the amplifier) is somewhat minimized, and they won't change the frequency response of a speaker crossover as the added series resistance of an ordinary potentiometer would. Tapped potentiometers are sometimes used as audio amplifier volume controls in order to privide a constant, continuous, fixed-amount feedback signal for lowering distortion or to actuate bass/treble/variable-"loudness" circuits where the amount of bass is increased at low listening levels and automatically decreases as you turn up the volume , to prevent stressing the speakers.

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In the RBG LED driver circuit at the end, what good is it to hook the black trace to the 3rd leg of each pot instead of just channeling the negative voltage through the RBG LED common leg? That seems to me to just create an unnecessary 333.333 ohm parallel resistor that isn't needed for driving the LED and is an extra drain on the battery ( about 27 mA) even when all pots are turned to their lowest (highest resistance) setting.

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There are a couple of small pots in one of my electronic control panels that can only be accessed with a jeweler's screwdriver. The pots have no physical stop on their rotational movement. I have been told to rotate the pot until I am sure it is past its upper/lower limit and then start slowly rotating it back for desired effect. How are such "no physical stop" pots made?? BTW, your videos are terrific!

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when I was little, say around 9 or 10. I thought I could make a lamp dimmer by wiring a potentiometer in series with a table lamp. I misunderstood that it would not work as a dimmer switch, but quickly found out with a very smelly , smokey result. like you showed at the end of the video. 😆

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Thank you very much! Now I understand how RPM of a DC motor is increased or decreased via potentiometers. One question: Does resistance inside a potentiometer decreases current flow too or only voltage? Because in the animation thickness of green flow was not changing when resistance increased.

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I ordered 2 guitar pots that were the wrong size that I'm stuck with. I'll have to find some sort of useful project for them, haha.

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In multiturn trimmer potentiometer, once we turned it into the maximum position it will give us a clicking sound. Why was it happen? Will it cause anything to potentiometer or is there any safety mechanism for prevention of screw rotation?

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