Description
Does your PCB design call for a 16mm right-angle pot? Welcome! This is as close to "plug and play" as you can get. Solder these potentiometers directly to the circuit board and save your time for building even more things!
Choose from four tapers:
Logarithmic / Type A
Linear / Type B
Reverse Log / Type C
Half Reverse Log* (aka The Tube Screamer tone taper) / Type W
The Specs:
16mm potentiometer
Smooth shaft measures 1/4" (6.4mm)
Comes with nut and washer
Logarithmic / Type A, Linear / Type B, or Reverse Log / Type C
PCB mount
Power Rating: B Taper 0.2W / Other Tapers 0.1W
Rotation Angle 300 degrees
Max voltage: B Taper 200VAC / Other Tapers 150VAC
20% tolerance range
Rotational Life: more than 10,000 cycles
Soldering Temperature: 350 Degrees C at 3 seconds
RoHS compliant
Check images for data sheet measurements.
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What is potentiometer taper?
Simply put, a potentiometer is a resistor. When you turn the pot, you change the level of resistance. A potentiometer taper is the relationship between the position of the pot (as you turn it) and the corresponding output. This is important when using an audio potentiometer as a volume knob because humans perceive volume changes logarithmically. This means that if you use a logarithmic pot (type A), the volume sweep is evenly distributed through the rotation of the knob. In contrast, if you were to use a linear pot (type B) for volume control, most of the volume changes will be "crowded" at one end of the turn. The "reverse log" (type C), also called a reverse audio taper, is like an A taper, only reversed. *W taper is a Half Reverse Log up to the midpoint. Then, the W taper switches to regular audio-log for the other half. These are pretty much only used for Tube Screamer tone controls in the boutique pedal world.
