Analogue-sequencer

Hi All, 
While I was ordering the pots I decided to spend a little more on 
better quality so I bought the (Eco) green conductive polymer track 
ones.. they say these are lower noise, anyone any comment on this 
(just curious)? 
They fit the boards ok so shouldn't be a problem in that respect.
The only problem I had was that the knobs I ordered, 16mm soft touch 
(Rean P670 series) don't quite fit the perfectly round spindles of 
the Eco pots.
A quick reaming (oo err missus!) with a 5.5mm drill bit followed by a 
6mm bit solves the problem, all smiles again after initial 
annoyance! :-)
Hope this might be useful to someone!
Regards, 
Phil (waiting for the postie to bring the last few bits!)

> They fit the boards ok so shouldn't be a problem in that respect.
> The only problem I had was that the knobs I ordered, 16mm soft touch 
> (Rean P670 series) don't quite fit the perfectly round spindles of 
> the Eco pots.

You could use collet knobs, but they cost about £1 each from Rapid -
which adds up to a lot more than 8p each for the rubber knobs...

The Alpha pots are really very good for the money. I haven't had any
problems with them on my P3s, other than the occasional bit of dirt or
lubricant getting under the wiper, but working the pot backward and
forward a few times has always solved that.
I know Paul N has had flickering values in pattern edit caused by noisy
pots, but I think that may be prematurely brought on by airbourne
pollutants, and he's too lazy to work them a bit ;-)
Does anyone else find they have noisy pots ?
I did use 100k pots for a time, which were more likely to cause jumping
for reasons i wont ore you with, so I switched to using 10k pots, and in
fact I'm now using 4k7 pots.
I'll be using Spectrol pots for Gert's big one, which are very nice
quality, but expensive - more than 5 time the price of the Alphas.
And for P4, I'm looking at Spectrol encoders which cost £3 each...

Cheers,
Colin f

>>And for P4, I'm looking at Spectrol encoders which cost £3 each...

P4?  First ive heard - (?)!

Julian

> 
> You could use collet knobs, but they cost about £1 each from Rapid -
> which adds up to a lot more than 8p each for the rubber knobs...

Exactly!!  The rubber ones are so cool which is why I got the drill 
bits out... a quick ream and they fit really snugly :-)
regards, 
Phil