W492

Hi everyone
I would like to build a dual w492 eq and I was wandering
Is this pot good for it?
http://www.conrad.it/ce/it/product/408254/Potenziometro-rotativo-OMEG-PC20BUPC1S-10K-A-F1-CEPS-Mono-10-k-1-pz?ref=searchDetail
But... if someone have other suggestion please let me know
All the best
Chrys 

The pot has to be a conductive plastic type, not carbon.

Mouser has Bourns #91A2A-B28-B15/B15L in stock for $9.50/ea

metalb00b00 said:

The pot has to be a conductive plastic type, not carbon.

Mouser has Bourns #91A2A-B28-B15/B15L in stock for $9.50/ea

Click to expand...

Thank you so much mate

Chrys said:

Hi everyone
I would like to build a dual w492 eq and I was wandering
Is this pot good for it?
http://www.conrad.it/ce/it/product/408254/Potenziometro-rotativo-OMEG-PC20BUPC1S-10K-A-F1-CEPS-Mono-10-k-1-pz?ref=searchDetail
But... if someone have other suggestion please let me know
All the best
Chrys

Click to expand...

Did you look in the dedicated thread? I posted a link there.

Gustav

metalb00b00 said:

The pot has to be a conductive plastic type, not carbon.

Click to expand...

Why that?

[silent:arts] said:

Why that?

Click to expand...

Was I wrong? I sorta halfway remember when the original thread started a long time ago, audiox mentioned the pots have to be conductive plastic type.

audiox  did two layouts, one for Sfernice potentiometers (conductive plastic),
and one for Omeg potentiometers (carbon).
(the two different payouts are not because of plastic / carbon, it is because of the different size / footprint both potentiometers have.

Sorry, I didn't know that there are two different layouts.

Must admit I thought that the Omegs were conductive plastic too - from the Omeg website (http://www.omeg.co.uk):
“We use conductive polymer (plastic) elements in our potentiometer range to give over twice the life of carbon.“

I’d understood that the pots in the W492 have DC on them, and that this would wreck a carbon pot in short order, but I may have misremembered!

[silent:arts] said:

audio did two layouts, one for Sfernice potentiometers (conductive plastic),
and one for Omeg potentiometers (carbon).
(the two different payouts are not because of plastic / carbon, it is because of the different size / footprint both potentiometers have.

Click to expand...

Chrys said:

Hi everyone
I would like to build a dual w492 eq and I was wandering
Is this pot good for it?
http://www.conrad.it/ce/it/product/408254/Potenziometro-rotativo-OMEG-PC20BUPC1S-10K-A-F1-CEPS-Mono-10-k-1-pz?ref=searchDetail
But... if someone have other suggestion please let me know
All the best
Chrys

Click to expand...

Hello,


you might want to ask your question(s) here in this help thread:


https://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=28332.0


Basically you need 6 mono and 2 dual pots,conductive plastic type.
There's tons of info in the thread on it.


Hope to have helped,


Udo.

TwentyTrees said:

I’d understood that the pots in the W492 have DC on them, and that this would wreck a carbon pot in short order, but I may have misremembered!

Click to expand...

That's exactly what I remembered too.

My bad. I remembered Omeg as carbon
(and many distributors still list them as carbon, even Audio Maintenance declare them as "Carbon & Co-Polymer (OMEG) Potentiometers")

Thanks guys for the answers!

kante1603 said:

Hello,


you might want to ask your question(s) here in this help thread
:


https://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=28332.0


Basically you need 6 mono and 2 dual pots,conductive plastic type.
There's tons of info in the thread on it.


Hope to have helped,


Udo.

Click to expand...

Thanks Udo

Gustav said:

Did you look in the dedicated thread? I posted a link there.

Gustav

Click to expand...

Sorry Gustav I didn’t notice that link
But thank you for the info