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News Release from: Omeg | Subject: Custom potentiometers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2007
Potentiometers are made to customer
specifications
Omeg specialises in the production of potentiometers made especially to customer specifications.
Omeg specialises in the production of potentiometers made especially to customer specifications Selecting from a menu of standard options can satisfy most requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Potentiometer and switch come together
A new potentiometer and switch combination provides a single pole switch with optional clockwise or anticlockwise actuation as well as standard or reversed electrical operation.
Standard options cover a myriad of parameters that include: feel-of-rotation, shaft diameter and length, power rating, resistance law (eg log, anti-log, linear or special), connection options and so on.
Occasionally, customers need special characteristics that cannot be fulfilled from the standard options menu.
One current example is a 16mm potentiometer fitted with a bell-action push switch, ie contacts normally open, momentarily closed, that was needed for PCB mounting with the shaft perpendicular to the board.
Additionally, the customer wanted a positive click action and good tactile feedback for the operator.
To satisfy this requirement, Omeg located a proprietary switch and modified its 16mm ECO potentiometer to accommodate it.
The single-pole single-throw switch is rated at 50mA, 24V DC.
Initially, prototypes were supplied and following successful trials the potentiometers are now in volume production.
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