Potentiometer 5 or 6 detents

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12-04-2006, 22:04

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Re: Potentiometer 5 or 6 detents

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Originally Posted by Travis Covington

Are you saying to use the 9.1k resistors if I wanted to have 12 positions? Would I still use the 15k resistors if I were to only use the 6 positions?

You can use either. If you use the 6 position switch, 15k resistors will give your programmers a little more leeway to distinguish one "step" from another.

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