i need to connect a rotary rheostat's knob to a horizontally rotating wooden rod . the rod is about half an inch in diameter and my total required range of motion is about 110 degrees.
how do i connect the pontentiometers knob to the end of the rod?
i need to connect a rotary rheostat's knob to a horizontally rotating wooden rod . the rod is about half an inch in diameter and my total required range of motion is about 110 degrees.
how do i connect the pontentiometers knob to the end of the rod?
Guess it depends on the pot's shaft type, flat, spindled etc... You could try gluing a tube over the pot, then gluing another tube over this, then a tube over both the pot's tube assembly then over the shaft, quick and dirty. Or, buy a knob for your pot, add a rod through the knob, add a rod through the shaft, (90 degrees to the angle of rotation) and connect those two together. Like two levers attached to eachother.
Theres so many ways, how about fitting a wheel to the pots shaft, and a wheel to the drive shaft and then attaching these two wheels faces' together? Or use cogs, because then you could change the turn ratio (2:1, most pots have a 270 degrees rotation)...or a drive pully using a drive belt...the possibilities are endless
the two levers thing sounds interesting. i hadn't thought of that.
thanks mon.
i'm going to try superglue first. if that doesn't work then i'll try something else.