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Offline MartinnTopic starter

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Dual axis potentiometers?
« on: August 21, 2024, 06:26:32 pm »
Hello all,

for a milling machine power feed (personal project, qty = 1) I'd like to have potentiometers that have a coarse/fine adjustment in two coaxial knobs. Like many old scopes had on the X and Y scale settings, outer one for the range and an inner one for dual timebase or fine adjust.
Now this is purely cosmetic and just for fun (I can simply place two potentiometers side by side), but I wondered if you could still buy those.
Sifting through Digkey I found this https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/tt-electronics-bi/P082D-27CBR10K/2620655 one by sheer luck - there is no filter one could apply and I had to go through the images. This is perfect, they have 2000 in stock and it's not even expensive. But still, only one out of 635178 potentiometer models on Digikey? Would anyone know where to look?
Next will be finding knobs for that (same problem), although as backup I could make them on the lathe (nice knurling exercise).

Thanks! Martin
 

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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2024, 06:55:40 pm »
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outer one for the range and an inner one for dual timebase or fine adjust

commonly known as a concentric  pot ,for knobs maybe try your local guitar store
 

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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2024, 07:40:22 pm »
Another term that has been used for these is ganged potentiometers.  Haven't tried this on the usual distributor sites so don't know if it will help.
 

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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2024, 07:54:38 pm »
Sorry, upon checking found that ganged is reserved for non-independent resistor elements.  But concentric does work.  Looking, it seems that the guitar industry is solely responsible for keeping this option alive. 
 

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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2024, 05:07:38 am »
 


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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2024, 06:37:55 pm »
didnt the old ww2 style radio's have these geared "knobs" with one output shaft that was then connected to the POT ?
 

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Re: Dual axis potentiometers?
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2024, 07:57:18 pm »
I think it’s somewhat important to point out that the definition of “coaxial” is sharing one axis, and that a “dual axis potentiometer” would actually be the exact opposite of what OP is actually looking for!
 


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