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Pot resistance?

Started by jable1066, July 11, 2010, 05:29:15 PM

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jable1066

I have hit a block with a current build which I will go into detail later if neccessary... I was debugging however, and tested the resistance of the 3 pots connected - all of these are linear 100k pots - and found that 2 of them show resistance of 100k and one at 50k. Is this normal? I tested the resistance between lug 1 and 3. Could this be causing the pedal to not effect properly - all I get is a clean signal...

Govmnt_Lacky

Disconnect the pot entirely. Rotate the pot ENTIRELY clockwise. Now read between the center terminal and the left......then the right terminal.

What do you get?
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JKowalski

You can't usually measure resistance in-circuit (with the component hooked up to the circuit) because any parallel resistance will throw values way off.