MCP42100 Digital Potentiometer with Arduino

[@scott482]

This is great! I do have an idea to use these as a digital audio board . Slide pots on an touch screen. Fully digital audio level mixer.

[@randalnichols7377]

You just saved me hours of figuring this out! Thank you so much!

[@BusyElectrons]

Excellent overview. Thank you for sharing this.

[@pileofstuff]

Interesting. I've played with the X9Cxxx ones before, but I wasn't aware of these SPI ones. It's always handy to have multiple ways to get to eh same place.

[@GadgetReboot]

I only learned about this family a couple of months ago. If anything, I am most impressed that they actually worked considering where they came from. My batch of X9C were the wrong resistance.

[@electronic7979]

Helpful video. I liked it

[@borayurt66]

Great subject, and good timing on my part. I've been wanting to try these digital pots for some time now. The idea is to make some king of a graphical user interface for an audio application I am working on. I wonder how much (if any) digital noise will be mixed into the audio signal when a MCU and all those data lines constantly switching is included in an pure analog audio circuit...

[@GadgetReboot]

that’s where some trial and error may be needed, especially if it’s done on a breadboard and not a printed circuit board with a good layout, things like ferrite beads in series with the power rail to various chips might help filter noise, or even using an isolated power supply so noise can’t get in that way and using Opto isolators or digital isolators for the control of the pot so there’s absolutely no electrical connection.

[@BibhasMandal73]

Very Good information , useful to me

[@Scrogan]

With the X9Cs you can wire the two inputs directly to a rotary encoder’s quadrature output and get a relatively cheap multiturn potentiometer, plus you could use the button on the encoder to change which digipot you’re controlling or do something else with the encoder.

[@GadgetReboot]

this sounds familiar, I think I was playing around with that a couple of years ago... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnu6fnmbl8uDqKs

[@Scrogan]

Gadget Reboot oh, you have too! I’ll need to have a closer look through your video backlog for more!

[@Yuēhàn24]

Great video. How can I control the digital pot using a rotary encoder.

[@machgt]

I'm trying an AD8400 to replace the potentiometer in my trolling motor foot pedal. First step is to control it with an arduino... after that I'm integrating a GPS, compass, and encoder to do station keeping and automatic heading correction

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

It's potty time, look quite useful. If you used one to say set a bias setting, I'm not sure how the circuit would behave if they become active after the components around them. So on power up does the OpAmp output hit any power rails as the +Ve input might be low or floating until the pot has settled ?

[@GadgetReboot]

yeah there’s definitely considerations with power on settling time, I wonder if it would work to have a couple of higher value fixed resistors as a divider to keep the bias near target and then when the digital pot kicks in it may not have a linear response but it may allow the tweaking in parallel with the fixed resistors

[@dwalden74]

Great video. How would I control a 0-10v circuit using a digital pot and arduino?

[@macdaddyns]

Thanks for sharing

[@nickkang711]

Thank you !!

[@t1d100]

Good information.

[@sametkarakoyunlu8835]

Thank you.

[@ShopperPlug]

What is the max threshold of power rating on this MCP digital potentiometer, example it has 10K resistance but what wattage it can withstand?

[@djkadakamc1889]

I need to command a dj mixer crossfader. It's 10kohm. Do you think i can use this for it? There are 4 pins and i suppose they are just 2 combined pots for stereo signal.

[@GadgetReboot]

you would have to know the maximum voltage that would appear on the resistors because the digital pot can only handle voltages up to its own power supply plus they’re not meant to handle much current so you would also need to know what kind of worst case current could go through the faders so without doing some sort of measurements or having access to the design schematics it would be a guess.

[@tojorandriamanarivo9014]

good video.plese can you help me to used MCP4162 ? i'm blocked on code arduino

[@eugy2008]

I take it this chip doesnt have a memory similar to X9C's?

[@GadgetReboot]

No memory, the wiper goes to the middle upon reset/power up.