Pot resistance - 473 ?

[max-man]

I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K
? I always forget.


Thanks

 

[John Fields]

I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K
? I always forget.

 

[DBLEXPOSURE]

I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K
? I always forget.


Thanks

47000

The 3 is the number of zeros, 4.7K would be 4D73 "D" for the decimal
point....

 

[Peter Bennett]

I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K
? I always forget.


Thanks

IF that is the value, then it is 47K - however, I don't think I've
ever seen a pot of that value - pot values usually go 1, 2, 2.5, and
5, followed by some number of zeros.

I suspect that 473 is (part of) the maker's model number, not the
value.

 

[Tom Biasi]

IF that is the value, then it is 47K - however, I don't think I've
ever seen a pot of that value - pot values usually go 1, 2, 2.5, and
5, followed by some number of zeros.

I suspect that 473 is (part of) the maker's model number, not the
value.


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Peter,
47K is a pretty common pot.
Tom

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K
? I always forget.

Thanks

47 + 3 0=47000, or 47K

 

[BobG]

Just to confuse things, the standard speed control pot for a curtis
golf cart controller is 5K, I dont think the K matters... you could use
a 10K or a 20K pot and it wold work fine. You used to be able to get 1
meg pots back in the tube TV days.... that might make the controller a
little squirrly and noisy..... like touching the tip of a hi
impedance guitar cord......

 

[John Fields]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:31 -0400, "Tom Biasi"

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Peter,
47K is a pretty common pot.
Tom

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Really? I don't think I've ever seen one. If his _is_ 47k and it's
a 10% pot, then its lowest resistance, end-to-end (neglecting
terminal resistance) will be 42300 ohms, and its highest resistance
will be 51700 ohms.

More than likely it's a 50k pot with an element tolerance of 10% and
terminal resistances, on both ends, of 100 ohms or less.

 

[max-man]

Thanks all.

 

[Tom Biasi]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:31 -0400, "Tom Biasi"

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Really? I don't think I've ever seen one. If his _is_ 47k and it's
a 10% pot, then its lowest resistance, end-to-end (neglecting
terminal resistance) will be 42300 ohms, and its highest resistance
will be 51700 ohms.

More than likely it's a 50k pot with an element tolerance of 10% and
terminal resistances, on both ends, of 100 ohms or less.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=2208&TabID=1&C=SEO&U=SEOsearchPages&doy=search


http://www.4starelectronics.com/part_search/PartSearchResults.aspx

 

[Peter Bennett]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=2208&TabID=1&C=SEO&U=SEOsearchPages&doy=search

Hmmm - I see pots with various odd values listed on the Maplin site,
but almost all pots listed in the Newark catalog have values in the 1,
2 (or 2.5), 5 sequence. Those odd values must be a British thing.

If the original poster does have a 47K pot, I'm sure he can safely
replace it with 50K, which may be more readily available.





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[Tom Biasi]

Hmmm - I see pots with various odd values listed on the Maplin site,
but almost all pots listed in the Newark catalog have values in the 1,
2 (or 2.5), 5 sequence. Those odd values must be a British thing.

If the original poster does have a 47K pot, I'm sure he can safely
replace it with 50K, which may be more readily available.





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Special order at Newark, but available.
http://www.newark.com/NewarkWebComm...earchtype=keyword&Nty=1&N=0&Ntk=gensearch&y=5
Tom

 

[Jasen Betts]

3
subj: 47x10 = 47K Ohms

 

[Jasen Betts]

4.7K would be 4D73 "D" for the decimal point....

I've not seen any marked that way, more likely 472 or 4K7

Bye.
Jasen