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Hi,

anyone know of good place in Australia with a decent range of pots with solder lugs . All I can seem to find are PCB mount.

I'm looking for B100K dual gang amongst others.

Thanks in advance,
Dave

dusura wrote:Hi,

anyone know of good place in Australia with a decent range of pots with solder lugs . All I can seem to find are PCB mount.

I'm looking for B100K dual gang amongst others.

Thanks in advance,
Dave

You could try Altronics,Jaycar Electronics have a range of 24mm and 16mm Alpha pots which I tend to use alot in my pedal builds,they are PCB mount,but I found that you can still solder wires to their lugs,each lug has a thin section that normaly fits into a hole in a PCB,to solder wires to them,I sharply bend the thin section up at 90 degrees,facing in the opposite direction to the shaft,then I use a pair of needle-nose pliers to make a small loop in the tinned end of a piece of wire,just large enough to fit on the lug,then I solder it in place....works for me.....

Yeah, I have been getting my pots mainly from Jaycar but they are all PCB mount. I like your method for connecting wires to PCB mount though. I might give that a go. It sounds like it makes a pretty durable connection.

dusura wrote:Yeah, I have been getting my pots mainly from Jaycar but they are all PCB mount. I like your method for connecting wires to PCB mount though. I might give that a go. It sounds like it makes a pretty durable connection.

Yeah,the connections are pretty durable,the only time I have ever had a pot fail on me was when I overheated the solder lug while soldering a wire to it,for some strange reason,I found that certain values of pots tend to be more prone to it than others,but it doesn't happen very often for me though....

I've given up with local electronics stores guys, they never have stock and are 4x the price of overseas suppliers. I get all my stuff from Futurlec, Tayda and Small Bear these days.