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Re: Help with pots/interrupts

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
Also, I don't know if it is a typo or not, but you should be using 100K ohm pots, not 10K, unless you only want 1/10th the resolution.
Actually, it doesn't alter the amount of resolution you have. What it does do is raise the amount of current flowing through the potentiometer. As the currents involved in both cases are miniscule (100K = 50uA, 10K = 500uA), I'd go ahead and use the 10K.

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