Comments on: HOWTO find and buy faders / sliders / slide pots / slide potentiometers

By: Woodworking project plans

Woodworking project plans — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:58:00 +0000

This measurement usually refers to the distance the control lever travels.

By: travel trailers

travel trailers — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000

If you’re looking for a thing that goes on a user interface, these ain’t those.

By: AO

AO — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:00:09 +0000

Nice article, the section about various sources is applicable to any electronic part needed for a repeatable project . . . I've spent hours on Digikey and Mouser just trying to find a specific connector, very time consuming and often frustrating.

Happy to find your site/blog; I'm an engineering artist as well (into dj'ing, electronic music, drum machines, visual art, and electronic art). I found you by searching Arduino on Etsy.

Cheers from Canada,
ao. [ www.technoetc.net/blog ]

By: stevecooley

stevecooley — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:39 +0000

I did some basic research after your comment, and I will agree that the biggest slider I could locate was 100mm. However, you could in theory try using spectrasymbol's softpots, as seen here:

http://www.spectrasymbol.com/typo3/site/en/soft...

and purchasable, among other places, here:

200mm long softpot
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet...
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.p...

500mm long softpot
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet...
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.p...

By: Jérôme Dumais

Jérôme Dumais — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:39 +0000

Hi,
I have a question about slide potentiometers : Does it exist more than 100mm travel ones ?
In fact i looking for around 150mm travels one …

jÉ