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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: scaesic on August 30, 2006, 01:23:29 PM

Title: alpha pots
Post by: scaesic on August 30, 2006, 01:23:29 PM
how come the 16mm alpha pots don't have solder tags on them?

are they designed only for pcb mounting?
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: markm on August 30, 2006, 01:36:59 PM
They usually do although, they do make a PCB mount version as well.
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: scaesic on August 30, 2006, 01:50:29 PM
actually it was just banzai, they have the solder tag ones in the "guitar pots" catagory, instead of "alpha pots". They;'re also over twice the price!
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: Mihkel on August 30, 2006, 01:54:29 PM
Don't the 16mm full shaft pots have solder tags and the split shaft ones the solder pins?
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: markm on August 30, 2006, 02:16:56 PM
Quote from: scaesic on August 30, 2006, 01:50:29 PM
actually it was just banzai, they have the solder tag ones in the "guitar pots" catagory, instead of "alpha pots". They;'re also over twice the price!

:icon_rolleyes:
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: scaesic on August 30, 2006, 02:27:03 PM
whats the point of full shaft ones?
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: Noplasticrobots on August 30, 2006, 03:40:31 PM
Full shaft pots let you mount more pots in a limited space by mounting some further back in an enclosure while some are mounted flush to the enclosure. Sort of like a zig zag.
Title: Re: alpha pots
Post by: scaesic on August 31, 2006, 12:30:00 PM
i see. I thought the main difference was you couldnt grip knobs as well.