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Potentiometer Suckage
schmitt trigger:
Those carbon film pots are usually 1/8 watt. Please note, I said usually.
Also, the power rating is for the whole element. If you’re using half of it, its rating will only be half of the total.
Edit: Indeed, 1/4 watt.
1/8 watt is for the smaller trimpots.
engrguy42:
Okay, apologies. My bad. Cockpit error. Potentiometer works fine. Smooth as silk.
Nevermind. Move along. Nothing happening here. Sorry to waste your time.
BTW, I hate breadboards. |O
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on May 29, 2020, 07:09:48 pm ---
Anyway, we can hypotheticalize for the next month about what might be the problem, my question was around the capabilities of the resistive element. Does anyone have any insight into that?
Thanks.
--- End quote ---
I would say RTFM, or in this case, RFTDS, but I can't think of what you would find on the data sheet that would answer the question. What sort of capabilities? Power?
engrguy42:
Okay, here's the deal...
Y'know how everyone's talking about AI and how awesome it is cuz you get those freakin' useless self driving cars and an Alexa that knows what channel to turn to? Y'know, totally useless crap.
Why don't they use it to do something, like, USEFUL?? Huh? Y'know, like let's just say someone is wiring up, say, a breadboard or something, and, y'know, his eyesight isn't what it used to be. And y'know how those holes are freakin' tiny and next to each other?
Well why not have some AI thingy that says "hold on you idiot, you put that wire in the wrong hole. It's supposed to be one hole over"
Now THAT is some useful Alexa stuff.
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