Wiring a potentiometer to the Analog Breakout

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Josh,
With this particular type of solder device, you must be careful to heat both the wire and the solder terminal before adding solder to the joint. Also be sure that the wire is tightly wound around the terminal before soldering. A good soldered connection is a good mechanical connection first.
If you first wire this up for a sensor and it would be more convenient for your programming to reverse it's operation just switch the wires on terminals 1 & 3.

[Russ Beavis]

Be VERY careful to wire the moving wiper to the signal pin on the Analog Breakout. If you do wire the wiper to either 5V or GND, you will short the power supply at one of the extremes. The power supply on the breakout should survive this but it will become very warm and all of the your sensors will lose power until the short is removed. Depending on the wiper and wire capability, you might even fry the wire and/or wiper.

Russ

[whitetiger0990]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Josh,
With this particular type of solder device, you must be careful to heat both the wire and the solder terminal before adding solder to the joint. Also be sure that the wire is tightly wound around the terminal before soldering. A good soldered connection is a good mechanical connection first.
If you first wire this up for a sensor and it would be more convenient for your programming to reverse it's operation just switch the wires on terminals 1 & 3.

Hmm. Thanks for the tip.