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Topic: Pots -pots and pots - Am I going crazy? |
Dag Wolf
From:
Bergen, Norway
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Posted 20 Apr 2007 5:59 am |
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What`s up with the Ohmite pots?
I just replaced pots on a few volum pedals I got. I had five pots for spare ALL of them does not work for a steel volum pedal.
Some works as on-off switch... 
some are impossible to play smooth with as they, on a scale from 0 to 10, comes on at 4 with just a tad movement of pedal.
This comes from a batch I got from the US. It is not the dealers fault - this is bad production.
Are there any good pot`s out there?
(I know, I know, I do have a Hilton ) |
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2007 6:38 am
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Dag, last time I noticed, the new Ohmite pots are actually Canadian PEC's with the "Ohmite" brand stamped on them. Do check to be sure that the center leg (the wiper) on the pot is the "output" connection to the amp.
Brad |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 20 Apr 2007 10:31 am pec
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Dag, I replaced a volume pedal pot a couple weeks ago with the new canadian PEC pot and it works great. Several of the vendors in the links listing have them in stock.
Too early to tell about longevity, but reports from other users are favorable.
The Dunlop pot, available from Tom Bradshaw is getting good reports too.
Sounds like the spares they sold you were for other applications maybe or just bad ones. |
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Mike Wheeler
From:
Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2007 4:07 pm
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I was thinking along the same lines as Jerry. Your description would seem to indicate a linear taper pot, instead of the required audio taper. Linear will come on right away, compared to the audio taper. But, I'm guessing here.
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Mike |
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Dag Wolf
From:
Bergen, Norway
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 5:42 am
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Thanks guys.
I know I wired them right. I took the wires off one at the time checked them with chord in the steel and amp before I installed the pot on it`s place.
It must have been a bad batch of pots. I know others in Norway who got pots from problably the same batch and have the same problem as I.
I`ve order some new PEC`s.
Thanks,
Dag
Last edited by Dag Wolf on 22 Apr 2007 8:59 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 6:42 am pots
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| Bobbie Seymour At Steel Guitar Nashville Has Good Pots. SONNY. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 2:43 pm Re: Pots -pots and pots - Am I going crazy?
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| Dag Wolf wrote: |
What`s up with the Ohmite pots?
I just replaced pots on a few volum pedals I got. I had five pots for spare ALL of them does not work for a steel volum pedal. |
Off-hand, I'd say you have the wrong pots, not bad ones. If you post or send me the numbers off of one of them, I can tell you what you do have. |
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