[sdiy] 10K Pot into 1MEG Pot?
Ken MacBeth
macbeth2600 at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 26 09:04:13 CET 2002
Scott, I want to play around with circuits that use sliders- easiest to get is 10k, I thought that I could experiment with making different values!
Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote: I'm curious, what would make you go to this trouble
when for about $5.00 (or less), you can get the real
thing?
I've looked at OTA based VC resistors, but the single
ended one is AC coupled, and the floating one is
too complicated, using both OTAs in a dual package.
Also, these circuits are not potentiometers, they
are variable resistors (or rheostats). They do not
have the equivalent of two end terminals and a
wiper. To do that, you'd have to build two of them,
and drive the control voltages inversely. This could
require up to 2 LM13700 packages and an opamp for
control voltage inversion plus a small garden of
resistors. Add two more opamps for a voltage to
current converter to drive Iabc current if you want
linear operation (a resistor is a crappy current source).
wrote:
>
>
>Hey, thanks, Crow, I'll give this a try!
>Regards, Ken
> The Old Crow wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Ken MacBeth wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, does anybody out there have any ideas how to turn a 10K
>> potentiometer into a 1MEG pot? I'm imagine using an OTA as a voltage
>> controlled resistor, but just can't figure this one out yet! Any help
>> here would be most appreciated- Regards, Ken
>
>NatSemi datasheet for LM13600 has examples of single-ended and
>double-ended voltage-controlled resistors; see figs. 8 to 10.
>
>http://www.oldcrows.net/ota/datasheets/lm13600.pdf
>
>Hope this helps?
>
>Crow
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