Potentiometers - How They Work, Disassembly and Exploration

[@glazinq]

Now this is what KZbin is all about! Great presentation, very clearly explained and extremely helpful. Many thanks!

[@coinbird44]

you mean what KZbin "was" all about 😅

[@JokerLover123]

​@@coinbird44 bro the comment is 12 years old

[@100chuckjones]

I do tutorials myself so I know what im talking about when I say this is a very well put together tutorial, more like a small seminar :) great job

[@MrKnoxguy101]

Yes! I’ve actually watched some of your vids on the Cakewalk X2 along with a few others. Very informative and thank you.

[@Special-Delivery57]

I’m just beginning to look into these things and I agree. Thank you John Cooper and thank you chuck for saying the same thing that I was going to say. This video is extremely helpful.

[@nmssis]

your vid posts are like a breath of fresh air for novices like me. Thanks for posting

[@stevenA44]

FINALLY, someone who explains how these things work and how to tell the difference!!! Liked.

[@gwmerr]

Natural teacher at work here. I came here knowing what a potentiometer does ....always wondered the what & how? In ten minutes I learned so much targeted information! Wow, thank you, johnplanetz

[@BaldurKhr]

So beautifully explained and so easy to grasp. Thank you for this elegant presentation!

[@djsonuamravati]

this is the best and simplest video on potentiometer....... thank u sir ........

[@khaledadams4329]

Been working with pots for a while now and this was still VERY informative and easy to watch. Thanks!

[@guppyfry]

I've been reading about Pots, but only after watching your video do I see and understand how they work. Thank you!!!

[@arupdutta7687]

Very well explained in layman's terms. Greetings from Kolkata, India.

[@manifestgtr]

dude...you are really good at explaining things...normally, I'll watch a video like this and the person doing it is so steeped in the subject that they just cant or don't bother to explain it in a way that's easily digestible...awesome video

[@philjones2760]

Nice video - something I've often wondered about but had no idea how they worked. You explained it very well!!

[@donniedarko7891]

Thx after your vid here i did managed to "repair" him. Thx. Works again flawless

[@glennsophie3235]

Thanks for the video. I had problems with my cts pot but your video gave me confidence to open it up and fix it. Many thanks. I was nearly ordering new.

[@UnluckyFett]

Thanks, Ive know how they work but your video and explanations really make it clearer in my head on how to wire pots to do different thing

[@Geopholus]

Thanks for the accurate, and well presented video on potentiometers. This video is SO MUCH BETTER than most of the others! The great thing about CTS pots is that they can dissipate more power than most of the other audio pots (except PEC) and they can be disassembled, and reassembled to to change shaft length or style and also change resistance elements of double ganged pots.

[@flamingfigures]

My physics teacher threw a potentiometer on the speakers for the announcements. Turns the volume down to minimum and continues lessons... best hack ever.

[@pauleaston2329]

Yes! Now I know why the volume on my Quasar black and white tv ain't working. Thanks, JC.

[@richardcouture5369]

Thanks for taking the time to do this for others. It was very informative and well done.

[@BJBorchert93]

Your videos have been SO helpful. I've learned a lot about the technical and physical stuff that I thought I'd never learn. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! I've been enjoying geeking out on these videos!

[@bermudaguitar]

Very precise and awesome presentation

[@CannonfireProduction]

Thanks John. I went for a new push/push pot (might as well do a Gilmour mod if I've got to change the pot). Not put it on yet but the flow tests are completely different to my old pot, ie they're correct! What a relief, but interesting to know that a pot can die just like that. Love the idea of a troubleshooter vid if you're up for it. It'll save the world from restless nights and brain ache.

[@MrKnoxguy101]

Thank you Mr. Cooper.

[@reed-xd8zx]

Great job, crystal clear explanation, thanks.

[@wentzr]

excellent explanations and demonstration on how the variety of pots work and how they're manufactured.

[@dl8cy]

Very pleasant voice - can very well listened (is important in tutorials:-) )

[@arnejensen9216]

I agree with the nice things already said about this video but I sincerly hoped for some advise on really disassembling different pots completely and even harder things like putting them back together without killing them. I have a few different methods and they work well enough to be 80% certain not to totally destroy it but I didnt come up with something that makes it easier and less of a pain in the a.. so far... any ideas? What I do is either drilling a tiny hole in the shaft and put a screw and a washer instead of the flanged end of the shaft or I re - flange the end while pressing down the pot, the ring with the wiper and sometimes also the disc that makes the whole thing somewhat stepped (dont know the exact expression for that, sorry)...I'd love to make a tool for fixing the pot etc in place before hitting the end to flange it, but I have no idea how...or what...I only know two hand are not enough to make it an easy operation and I hate assembling pots very very much...not as much as a dirty pot but still...a lot!!

[@Forde3654Eire]

Thanks for your thorough explanation on those potentiometers! I need them to build my own home-made racing wheel, hadn't a clue what they were. Now this solves half of the problem already!

[@Special-Delivery57]

Thank you very much John Cooper.👍🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@peavelSD]

hello, i want to say that i really appreciate your effort you put into these videos, these are really helpful!

[@rcmoot]

it is so nice to see you are informing us on these simple things

[@AmrMKamel]

Thank you I really had hard time understanding how pots work but now its piece of cake thanks to you :-)

[@ramullins]

good stuff, man, artfully presented, professionally researched. Loves

[@vaughanmaybury2825]

Hi John, thanks for making this video, very well explained and helpful.

[@KyleRebar]

Clean explanation. Makes sense to lay-folk like me. Nice work!

[@BenGeorgia]

I appreciate this video. Fantastic, thank you.

[@HSHS67VA]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial! It is a great help in diagnosing a volume control problem for a virtual organ!

[@halfcabdisaster7]

Thanks for the video, pots make a lot more sense now.

[@johneric3886]

Nice work I really enjoyed your video!

[@incantatis]

No BS, pure gold! Thank you! Keep doing this! Rock ON!

[@futchofdeth666]

Thank You Sir! Bass guitar stopped working, checked everything with multimeter couldn't figure it out. Watched your vid, took mine apart and back together, tighter with the clips. I assume it just was a bad connection inside, works now and I understand pots!

[@damianmerrick9259]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to help educate us all.

[@TheForce_Productions]

Is for this I prefer linear for volumes and audio for tones, imo and taste this way you can get a better control over each one. Nice video!

[@jono7145]

cheers mate, this really helped with my coursework

[@aculeus1971]

Very good videos. In one of your other videos showing an epiphone circuit being request, you have actually removed the pots and poked them through some aerated cardboard... But you didn't mention it ... That's actually a fantastically useful approach when wiring without a scratchplate... Keeps the work still and even allows you to draw the wiring between the lugs... The latter might help if you are just starting soldering.

[@philycheezesteak5176]

great vid!! so that's what A and B stands for!

[@nelsondog100]

Phily Cheezesteak A= audio, B= linear

[@electricwally]

Very, very helpful John. I learned a lot. Best wishes and thank you.

[@lvvry1855]

Great job. Sorry I'm late to join you. You're an excellent teacher. I hope you're doing it at a college somewhere.

[@sclogse1]

You are awesome. Thorough. At 6:07, when introducing the audio/log taper, I found my mind starting to ask questions that this video wasn't necessarily covering...(jsut imagine showing a class this and imagining wehre some of the minds are going at this point. You might want to experiment with the video by having a complete novice sitting there while you rehearse the video, and getting their feedback. I realize that feedback comes here...of course.

[@Williamson_Eric]

Super Clear! Thanks---- Very well explained. Thanks

[@100roberthenry]

great explanation of pots....nice one man...

[@aaronbinder6924]

Ahhh very cool man!! TY for that video. I have a 16 watt tube amp I bought from Tube Depot and I'm on my 3rd Potentiometer. I keep getting the ones from Parts Express and they are total crap!! After watching your video now I have a better idea of where to look for a better POT . Thanks again!! Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Take care

[@gmindgjerd]

Learning. Thank you brother.

[@REX05011]

Thank you a lot I'm fixing up an old ibanez blazer bass and i really need those nuts and washers for it .

[@IngenieroDeSonidoJFP]

Perfect explanation, I'm sharing it on my facebook and twitter for my students. Thanks!

[@FF-so3su]

Good narration

[@hugojj101]

thanks this vid really helped because im a beginner

[@littlebluemarblesurfer6342]

Well explained my friend. Thank you

[@TheHaircutcity]

Excellent Video, very complete!

[@mick3216]

Fantasic Video please do a updated version

[@metalmania707]

Very informative! Thanks for taking the time to produce the vid.

[@faawks]

Thanks, I learnt a lot from this.

[@eugennew4334]

Thanks very much. You explained it very well :)

[@robertmessore]

Thanks for sharing your gift for teaching!

[@sayeed7167]

Fantastic video sir... it was helpful thank you.....and Stay safe.....:)

[@fdre3wsd]

excellent teaching, dude

[@craigpattenden]

Really cool video man. Thorough and simple.

[@nonameinfl]

@johnplanetz Well, I just watched the video again and the the cts pot you disassembled has the copper tabs I am takling about! They clearly extend out from each outside lug onto the carbon trace. The older cts pots do not have this copper pad or tab or whatever you could call it at each end of the trace. I don't know if it makes any difference, I just noticed the change a few years ago. Thanks for your very neat posts!

[@serba_serbi]

Thanks you for amazing video👍

[@savionics7923]

well explained john

[@nogatorp]

What an excellent video. Yeah, I caught the 2 mistakes, but so did you. I've never had a clearer explanation of potentiometers. The video is high quality, too. Do you have a Udemy course? If not, you should. Thanks. -Rodi

[@stavroshouiris]

Thank you so much for taking the time to rite me back and i find your reply rely helpful, thanks.

[@beninglis8097]

Fantastic videos mate.

[@Habibulla.M]

Well explained 🙏

[@rksguit]

Awesome vid,I had a super smooth 250k Volume pot in a Left Handed Ibanez RS135 that guitar did[very soon after buying] became sort of strat-like in looks,but not-before I stripped the 2mm resin[joking] and reshaped the body.I re-used the stock 250K volume pot.even after hacking a Seymour Duncan JB Humbucker-tilted,sounded superb,but that wonderful Vol. Pot. Wore Out 24 years later [great run!]In 2009 I eventually got from the US some 500k CTS Left Handed potentiometers-anyway man they're all irritatingly STIFF[no more"Cathedral"attempts since!],so Thank You for confirming why they is so!

[@TzzX78]

great explanation simple and easy to understand...love electronics

[@kannon11t]

Bass broke so I figured I'd learn all about the parts, thanks for the details, I've been playing with the pots for days XD

[@scottwilly86]

Thank you! You are an awesome teacher

[@stuckinthecities]

This helped answer many questions I had..

[@levych]

excellent explanation

[@YaKamarJulia]

very useful informations I have found here! Thanks!

[@carvindc400]

Thanks for putting the time in this very well done video : )

[@shohruxibragimov2411]

thanks man, for such a tutorial

[@EdwinHenryBlachford]

very clear Yoda. thankyou

[@James_Haskin]

This is a really well made video. Thanks John!

[@dud9011]

@johnplanetz theyre both pots, tone pot has a capacitors, that's what makes it a tone pot...without the cap, it's just another volume pot (but doesn't work)

[@tommyfairhurst9864]

thank mate you are spot on i had some cts pot 500k where well under not now i did what you said now they are over 500k now thanks

[@dp0813]

other than the conceptual mistake pointed out in the video & by other commenters, this was very helpful in understanding how to properly use pots. If this had been explained before, my EE labs may have gone a little quicker!

[@LLJJEEYY]

Love your videos. Thank you for your time and the shared knowledge.

[@rmhutchins7]

I enjoyed your video. It was very helpful. Thank you!

[@madamerotten]

Usually 2 linear segments are used to approximate the audio taper. It works well enough for most applications. Exceptionally high-precision log and audio taper pots are a thing of the past.

[@coreygold1923]

Yep. If my pot is not what I expected then I go try some different pot. Lmao my stupid humor. 🤣 Thanks for sharing 👍

[@ck9000]

Great video, thanks for educating me

[@mohammedjaih508]

Thank you very Much Bro that was Easy to understand. Appreciate it.

[@Dr.Fingertips]

Thanks man!

[@koncertLive]

yeah you can make the potentiometer control you pulse speeds kinda like how you would dim a LED.. Sort of like turning it on and off really fast to make it run slower instead of lowering the voltage!.

[@damiencarlisle7520]

Great video. Thank you for making this.

[@DP0884]

Great Video, helped me a lot. Thank you very much.

[@E5Bobby]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video John. Thank you for making it. It was VERY well done. I've got a rheostat on a ceiling fan that only has two lugs. I think it's bad because the fan spins very slowly across the whole range of the rheostat. It's soldered into place so I'm going to take it out of the fan (circuit) and test it with my VOM. If I can tell it's bad I'll go to the local lighting store to see about a replacement. It should work much like the ones you tested in the video, correct?

[@formidable38]

This is very usefull, Thanks. Ive got a fairly old Sony AV amp that has a bad volume control, it loses a channel and crackles when you turn the volume control. Would it be a similar potentiometer? I didnt know they were this simple. Think after watching this il give it a go and see if it'l clean up. Cant afford to lose the amp as it'l cost me a fortune to replace, its a great amp.