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Title: Chunk Chunk mid pot question
Post by: DutchMF on April 01, 2012, 07:00:05 AM
He guys,

I'm about to finish my Chunk Chunk today, and one of the things still to do is putting a resistor across pins 1&3 of the 5kB mid pot (as mentioned in the doc). After looking at the schematic and reading "The secret life of pots" over at Geofex.com, I was wondering if I should put it across 1&2 instead of 1&3, since in this configuration 1&3 doesn't seem to do anything until the pot is rotated CW completely. Or should I put it across 2&3? I tried modelling the resulting resistance in a spreadsheet, but that didn't really clarify anything.....

Paul
Title: Re: Chunk Chunk mid pot question
Post by: Ang3lus on April 01, 2012, 12:14:45 PM
putting it across 1&3 parallels the pot with the resistor (5k1 in this case) you put on it, dropping its value completely down to 2.5k.

I'm not sure what putting it across 1&2 would do.

Title: Re: Chunk Chunk mid pot question
Post by: stecykmi on April 01, 2012, 04:15:03 PM
if you put resistors across 1 + 2 and/or 2+3, you change the taper of the pot. it's possible to turn a linear pot into (an approximation of) a log pot, for example.

this site has a calculator: http://www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/emh/emh.html (http://www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/emh/emh.html)