Slide pots ?

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

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?...catref=66-0105

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Originally Posted by 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?...catref=66-0105

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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...

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/s...duct&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/s...duct&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/c...spx?range=2041

Hope that's of some help...

NH

Steve,

I'm not sure if this will help.

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

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.

@Pedro I have ordered these phidget sliders :)