Are 100k Ohm pots necessary?

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18-02-2005, 00:36

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Re: Are 100k Ohm pots necessary?

If you read the documentation for the OI it tells you to only wire +5V and the wiper for a potentiometer connected to the OI. We mistakenly wired the third leg of our 100K potentiometer to ground and had some strange results. After reading about the pullup circuitry, our strange results make sense.

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