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Re: Smoking potentiometer

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Originally Posted by Zak698
David,
My respose would be that the lcd is drawing too much current for that pot, hook up your multimeter and see how much current it is drawing and then compair it to what the pot is rated at....
That's exactly what I did. I hooked it up to a 5v current from a power supply, and to a multimeter. it looked like it was working fine for about a minute and then is started smoking again.
The pot says 500 ohm on it.

David