Can anyone help me with the following:
When do you replace pots? When they become notchy/bouncy in the
calibration screen?
How do you clean them? I've seen silicone spray mentioned in a
previous thread.
My Interact V4 wheel (my LWFF is on the way) had a accel pot go out.
I replaced it with a 100k pot from Radio Shack, but had to grind the
shaft and do other mod work to it. Is there a better alternative to
the RS pot?
I have heard RS pots go out rather quickly. Is this true?
Can you replace a 100k pot with a 50k? What does the "k" mean,
anyway?
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:55:03 GMT, [email hidden] (nixx) wrote:
>Can anyone help me with the following:
You will get better answers than mine on most of this, but here's what
I can offer...
>When do you replace pots? When they become notchy/bouncy in the
>calibration screen?
That would be a good bet, though try cleaning them first.
>How do you clean them? I've seen silicone spray mentioned in a
>previous thread.
You can get something called "TV Tuner Cleaner" from Radio Shack.
Just spray the stuff into the pots and work them back and forsth a few
times. Sometimes it works miracles.
>My Interact V4 wheel (my LWFF is on the way) had a accel pot go out.
>I replaced it with a 100k pot from Radio Shack, but had to grind the
>shaft and do other mod work to it. Is there a better alternative to
>the RS pot?
there is almost always a better alternative to anything you can buy at
RS, but almost never anything as convenient.
>I have heard RS pots go out rather quickly. Is this true?
Junk is junk. Sometimes, some RS parts just aren't up to spec in the
first place, like the cable TV splitters they sell. They aren't rated
for the bandwidth you would be using them for and make a ton of noise
as a result.
>Can you replace a 100k pot with a 50k? What does the "k" mean,
>anyway?
"k" in this instance stands for 1000. So 100k is 100,000 and 50k is
50,000 ohms resistance. You could replace the pot with a different
value pot(entiometer) but that would change the values of what your
wheel was putting out, which may interfere with it's accuracy or
calibration.
~daxe
