potentiometer

Examples

• All

• The sensor, which is user-selectable for light operation or dark operation, has an adjustable power potentiometer.

  Academic text (2001)

• The 10-turn counting temperature setpoint potentiometer provides for 1,000 numerical increments of adjustment.

  Academic text (1995)

• So if this is the potentiometer here, then basically the leg here and the leg here are already short.

• First I try to connect my potentiometer like so.

• We tune the potentiometer until it just turns off like this.

• Adjust the potentiometer so the slit of light gets larger.

  Academic text (1993)

• Speed was adjusted by turning the speed potentiometer to a 1 m/sec maximum speed as measured over a known distance.

  Academic text (1995)

• A power supply and signal conditioner unit powers and amplifies the potentiometer and load cell.

  Academic text (2001)

• Trimming potentiometers are board-level electromechanical devices that correct voltage resistance errors in circuits.

  Academic text (2000)

• You can rotate the potentiometer to adjust the output voltage in the circuit.

Synonyms

P

pot

vspotentiometer

• Specialized

2 8.4

A small control used to change volume or brightness in electronic devices

is the three-terminal device used specifically to change voltage rather than general resistance control

V

variable resistor

vspotentiometer

• Specialized

5.3

A part that changes the amount of electric current in a circuit

is the specific three-terminal device used to vary voltage rather than control current

How Adjustable

variable resistor

• Specialized

5.3

rheostat

• Specialized

1 9.4

potentiometer

• Specialized

1 9.6

trimmer

• Specialized

7.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology