[simpits-tech] Slide potentiometers

[Jeroen Huijben]

>From: Matt Bailey <mattb at rtccom.net>
>Yeah, they reverse range when swapping lugs. I thought standard rotary pots 
>did the same thing?

Electrically, rotating and sliding pots are the same.
You have a strip of conducting, 'high' resistance material with a terminal 
on each side and a moving contact with it's own terminal.
Only the mechanical way of moving the contact is different.
http://www.zaftig.org/pcomp/potentiometers.html

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