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Re: Futurlec Pots?
Posted: 30 Jan 2012, 01:12
by CodeMonk
claytushaywood wrote:mysticwhiskey wrote:Yep, I've done this on a number of occasions and it seems to work well. I use pins from right-angle header connectors to solder to the PCB:
VeroPotMounting.jpg
VeroPotMounting2.jpg
Great idea! only problem is the pots I got from tayda... alpha ones with the sweet little plastic dust/conductive covers, dont fit into the holes of the vero and perf I received from them. Do you have to sand down the terminals to get them to fit? I was also thinking
I could enlarge the holes on teh perf but I thought that might ruin the copper traces. eh?
Nah, I do that with perf and vero all the time.
Re: Futurlec Pots?
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 19:51
by claytushaywood
CodeMonk wrote:claytushaywood wrote:mysticwhiskey wrote:Yep, I've done this on a number of occasions and it seems to work well. I use pins from right-angle header connectors to solder to the PCB:
VeroPotMounting.jpg
VeroPotMounting2.jpg
Great idea! only problem is the pots I got from tayda... alpha ones with the sweet little plastic dust/conductive covers, dont fit into the holes of the vero and perf I received from them. Do you have to sand down the terminals to get them to fit? I was also thinking
I could enlarge the holes on teh perf but I thought that might ruin the copper traces. eh?
Nah, I do that with perf and vero all the time.
Thats a sick little hand drill! whered you get that? or what size is the bit? id love to start using vero strips for my pc pin pots
Re: Futurlec Pots?
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 20:03
by Dr Tony Balls
That hand drill is called a "pin vise" and they have em at about every hardware and hobby store. They're phenomenally useful for vero/pcb stuff.
Re: Futurlec Pots?
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 21:12
by claytushaywood
Got a bit size that works well for vero and perf?
Re: Futurlec Pots?
Posted: 06 Mar 2012, 21:20
by Dr Tony Balls
claytushaywood wrote:Got a bit size that works well for vero and perf?
depends on the size of the strips and spacing and all that. The pin vise that I bought is just a chuck that holds bits, so I robbed whatever old bit i had lying around that was big enough to easily remove all the copper on vero and used that.