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Old 05-31-2009, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by radio nut View Post
I went to check the pots and I am confused now. The brightness pot per sams should be 5meg. Mine checks end to end 571k. If I put the ohmmeter from pin 1 to 2 and vary the conrtol it starts at 158ohms -goes to 2.486 meg and then back to 550k as I am turning it the same direction. I am used to pots breaking inside and just having no resistance. This I have yet to see. I take it that this pot is bad ?
Or, there could be 570K in parallel with 1 and 3 which would make it behave this way.

John
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