Slide pots ?

[Steve A]

I need 3 Slide pots with 60mm minimum travel. I have a local electronics store here in Paphos but im struggling to explain exactly what i want to the greek speaking staff. I took one from the store to try but it doesn't work correctly through my buo836x card and i suspect it isn't analogue and is meant for use as an audio slider.
What exactly do i need to get? does anyone have 3 spare which i would gladly pay for, or maybe an exact link to the product on a british/european website so i can order some.

Thanks in advance
Steve

[Steve A]

Or can you clever people tell me if these are suitable. They seem awfully cheap to be putting in a throttle.
http://www.rapidonline.com/sku.aspx?tier1URL=Electronic-Components&tier2URL=Resistors-Potentiometer&tier3URL=Control-Potentiometers&tier4URL=Slide-potentiometers&moduleno=65234&catref=66-0105

[Leo Bodnar]

Or can you clever people tell me if these are suitable. They seem awfully cheap to be putting in a throttle.
http://www.rapidonline.com/sku.aspx?tier1URL=Electronic-Components&tier2URL=Resistors-Potentiometer&tier3URL=Control-Potentiometers&tier4URL=Slide-potentiometers&moduleno=65234&catref=66-0105
They have 15,000 movements life-span. This is OK for tone control in a cheap radio but not something to be used in e.g. joystick or pedals...

[Neil Hewitt]

Hi Steve.

RS Components has these linear pots (you didn't specify so I'm assuming 10K) with 60mm travel:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=2499323

The Alps range includes linears up to 100mm. All have a duty cycle life of 30K cycles. Whether that's going to be enough or not is up to you to decide, I guess. They do carry K-type sliders rated to 100K cycles - the 100mm one is here:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=2499351

They're all Alps, standard stuff, so your local supplier ought to be able to order them I'd guess. A quick check of RS Cyprus site (they have a local authorised distributor, it seems) shows that they carry the same range of linear pots as the main UK site.

http://cy.rsdelivers.com/catalogue/category/resistors-potentiometers/1811.aspx?range=2041

Hope that's of some help...

NH

[xtreme3d]

Steve,

I'm not sure if this will help.

http://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/phidgets-slider-60.aspx

[Steve A]

Thank you Guy's Now i can either go into the store locally armed with these data sheets and not make an idiot of my self trying to speak greek lol
@ Neil, i looked all over the web for cypriot distributors of quality components and couldn't find anything, thanks for this link i'll be using them.

[Steve A]

@Pedro I have ordered these phidget sliders :)