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Originally Posted by Aignam
Funny story about this. The team was at the Bristol-Myers Squibb shop, and I kept hearing the programmers on our team and the BMS tradesmen talking about "pots", and I couldn't count the times I heard them make references to the "pots", since we were programming the arm. It took me most of the day to figure out that "pots" were potentiometers. Then everything started making sense. Alas, clarity.
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A potentiometer has been called a pot since the early days of radio.
I have been asked for the "thingamajig" for the arm measurement,
to which I replied the proper way to ask for the part is: "Dr. Brooks,
I would like you to give me the pot." The teenagers in the shop thought
it was very funny. The nine dollar Bournes pots from digikey, very
good for continuity as you turn them, are, of course, smooth pots. In
our shop everyone was careful wiring them, so no one smoked the pot.