solarfox@texas.net wrote:
> I've never heard 'em called that either. :) I've always known them as
>"pots" or "potentiometers"...
>
>
Unless of course you don't connect one of the outer legs, in which case
they are a rheostat.
The "preset" thing sort of explains why some schematics label them as
PR1, PR2, etc. Them wacky Europeans, with adjusting things
anticlockwise instead of counter-clockwise and labeling resistors as 4K7
instead of 4.7 K.
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