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Potentiometers for the Average User
In the world today ruled by continuously growing advancements in technology, electronics, and the internet; people are becoming more and more unaware of their surroundings and how things really work. Many household items include Potentiometers which more or less are sensors that measure proximity between resistive elements of a plastic sealed product and used with a simple wiper assembly. Wipers consist of 2 separate circuits generally top and bottom that triggers each potentiometer from outside the specific product and its usage, such as a joystick for an electronic children’s toy car. They can also have many designs and able to comply with most any processes. Linear sensors are used in some medical fields as well as the auto industry revolving around mobile hydraulics and other industrial fields which technology plays a large factor. Yet, so many look past and devalue the amount of work put into making these complex items as they make daily used products user friendly for the common people.
A basic Potentiometer can be attributed anywhere that determines the use of sensors, knobs and switches. A basic car radio or an oven with knobs and switches are examples that many people use everyday without taking time to attribute time and the complexity of linear sensors.
An even smaller sensor accredited is the linear potentiometer which is available and on the market today which is actually one of the smallest potentiometers with a thickness of less than a millimeter wide. These are used with HotPot and SoftPot potentiometers that measures voltage between a single potentiometer and its end point as a variable in analog voltage dividers. The SoftPot membrane potentiometer can handle temperatures reaching anywhere around negative 45 degrees Fahrenheit while the HotPot membrane potentiometer has proved to withstand up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit, has an elevated life cycle and can successfully work with linear and rotary versions of membrane potentiometers.
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