How Potentiometer Works - Unravel the Mysteries of How potentiometers Work!

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  • @EngineeringMindset
    @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +36

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    • @EEMETOCE
      @EEMETOCE 11 місяців тому

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      @Ryuko15 11 місяців тому

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    • @AfraidAwini
      @AfraidAwini 2 місяці тому

      Beginner

  • @adamkalon7584
    @adamkalon7584 11 місяців тому +73

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    @primetime-zt2ij 11 місяців тому +34

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    @slushy6972 11 місяців тому +48

    The editing put into this is crazy smooth

    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +10

      Thank you, a LOT of hard work, late nights and coffee went into this

  • @jeremyk9000
    @jeremyk9000 11 місяців тому +76

    Your videos help me as an apprentice electrician.

    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +11

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    • @jesperwall839
      @jesperwall839 11 місяців тому +12

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      @milanthemilan5015 11 місяців тому

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    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +10

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    • @datgio4951
      @datgio4951 11 місяців тому

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    @nathanieljames7462 11 місяців тому +18

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  • @mikechiodetti4482
    @mikechiodetti4482 11 місяців тому +5

    You provide a lot of information in a short time. It helps to have some electronics background or watch the video several times.
    Wish I had your videos when I first learned electronics. Seeing "How" the components function is definitely a BIG help!
    Thankyou for this video.

  • @TheTubejunky
    @TheTubejunky 11 місяців тому +17

    I love your content. This is what lots of young ppl should learn. (it's fun). You should DEF do a video on 555 timer ICs they sort of have endless uses. Thanks for your hard work!

  • @vincentmasanja6979
    @vincentmasanja6979 11 місяців тому +11

    You always keep me up to date for your teaching,thank you.

  • @ahreuwu
    @ahreuwu 11 місяців тому +2

    You uploaded this literally as I was at work looking at the tv camera's knobs wondering how they worked. Thanks for your work on this channel, very informative and explained extremely clearly even for newbies like me!

  • @cesarcantoral6100
    @cesarcantoral6100 11 місяців тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @darrenrigby5687
    @darrenrigby5687 9 місяців тому +2

    Amazing, clear, and concise tutorials. 2 videos in, and now I'm a subscriber!
    Thank you!

  • @pushkar5382
    @pushkar5382 11 місяців тому +1

    Learnt a lot, thanks

  • @aaabb4432
    @aaabb4432 11 місяців тому +3

    I have no background in electrical engineering, but I have potentiometers installed in my home in place of classical light switches to control the brightness of room lightbulbs. I had no clue how do those actually work, always thought it was something incredibly complicated, but after this video I can fully understand the principle. Most likely I won't apply that knowledge anywhere, but it's very nice that someone has finally clarified this to me. Also, had no clue that those sliders on audio desks are just potentiometers, so thank you for that. Great video!

    • @shivambajpayee5801
      @shivambajpayee5801 11 місяців тому

      Plz use pwm

    • @JeffreyStroman
      @JeffreyStroman 10 місяців тому +1

      Learn about SCR's and firing angle, it is doubtful any of your lighting dimmers work the way you assume after watching this video.

    • @USA__2023
      @USA__2023 8 місяців тому

      Light dimmers are way more that a POT, the POT controls electronics inside the dimmer. Audio volume, yes.

  • @EGVITENGINEERING
    @EGVITENGINEERING 11 місяців тому +2

    I am an electrical engineer and this video has actually provided more valuable information which has really helped ❤. Keep it up with your great work 💯

  • @vaysu6670
    @vaysu6670 9 місяців тому +1

    Great video. Like how you provide plenty of example applications and explain how they work in an easy-to-understand way.

  • @Vgk36
    @Vgk36 11 місяців тому

    I'm in a&p school rn. Basic elctronics class. THANK YOU 🙏. I have shared some of your videos with classmates. This is how i learn visually! 12:53

  • @tedbastwock3810
    @tedbastwock3810 6 місяців тому

    Extremely useful, exactly what I needed. No need for me to watch any other potentiometer vid now. I appreciate your channel very much. Thank you.

  • @nolimitza.j5063
    @nolimitza.j5063 11 місяців тому

    I had doged all my electronics classes,but you've covered every topic I wasn't understanding I now know what all my notes mean.thank you so much

  • @rachelheath1208
    @rachelheath1208 11 місяців тому

    Watching this out of interest...
    In his lifetime, my dad was a design/tester engineer of electronic equipment.
    Thank you for a great video.

  • @RiskiVR
    @RiskiVR 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for responding and making this video!

  • @eduardot7829
    @eduardot7829 9 місяців тому +1

    I'm hoping someone can calarify. Why Is the RGB setup at the end using a potentiometer setup ( 17:34 ) and not a rheostat configuration like the example before it at ( 17:13 ) ?

  • @laurentiupopescu9491
    @laurentiupopescu9491 11 місяців тому +1

    Mulțumim!

  • @aqua_coder
    @aqua_coder 11 місяців тому +3

    3:42 Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Resistance A type an exponential type instead of an logarithmic one? Exponentials are the inverse of logarithms.

    • @barcodenosebleed5485
      @barcodenosebleed5485 8 місяців тому +1

      Well that was an interesting rabbit hole to go down and now my brain hurts.
      Why do we call them logarithmic when they graph as exponential? Is it just the fact that they're used for audio and loudness is described logarithmicly? As-in we just ended up with this misnomer due to that tradition?
      Or, more generally speaking, while being graphed exponentially, is it infact aptly named but just from the perspective of the equivalent logarithm because that perspective is more important electrically?
      And then, is an inverse/anti log pot actually the one that's logarithmic? Or is it still exponential and just rotated 180°? I'm not even sure that question makes sense...
      Another thing to think about: consider a slider pot where directionality isn't an issue as you can make either end "up". There's a reason there are still log and inverse log versions...you couldn't just wire them backwards. The types differ in whether you have the "fine adjustment" (slow change) portion of the curve near the high resistance area of the pot or the low resistance area.
      And then practically, it appears these types of pots are more or less actually two linear pots with different "resistance per degree" characteristics stuck end-to-end and are thus only an approximation of said mathematical functions.

  • @ProGamerz2901
    @ProGamerz2901 11 місяців тому +7

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    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you, that's so nice to hear.

    • @ProGamerz2901
      @ProGamerz2901 9 місяців тому

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  • @marvinochieng6295
    @marvinochieng6295 11 місяців тому

    I normally dont like ads but ths channel has ads that are actually relevant to the video and the audience. Keep up the good efforts sir/madam

  • @benshoof3846
    @benshoof3846 11 місяців тому +1

    great video and exellent explaintion, a huge information about Potentiometers that i have been already known

  • @leea1988
    @leea1988 11 місяців тому

    I find all this stuff incredibly fascinating. Thanks for yet another great video!

  • @ThePeacePlant
    @ThePeacePlant 11 місяців тому

    Your videos are amazing. I never realized how simple electronics are until i just started watching your videos

  • @rogerthat309
    @rogerthat309 11 місяців тому

    You're a very knowledgeable man, i recommend this channel to all my electrical buddies, thank you.

  • @friethem
    @friethem 4 місяці тому

    Potentiometers are really important in the electric guitar world! Thanks for all the contents :)

  • @michaelvandensteen7994
    @michaelvandensteen7994 10 місяців тому

    Your videos are so valuable! I've always had an interest in electronics but languages were my forte so that's what I studied at school. Was playing with the idea to follow some night class about elecctronics but with your videos I feel like I've learned so much on my own. Thanks a lot from a Belgian fan!

  • @johnadams1976
    @johnadams1976 11 місяців тому +2

    Very clear explanation. Thanks

  • @mattsold1267
    @mattsold1267 11 місяців тому +1

    Hello. I have been watching your videos and others a couple months know to understand electricity in cars and how to diagnose issues. I really appreciate how easy you’ve made portions of electricity to understand. However, I have not seen a video on how current flow induces electricity. Can you make a video (if you already have one up please reference me to it) on how current flow carries positive ions through the circuit. I know that it should be common sense that the electrons flowing is what produces the electricity, but there are not any visual representations on why the energy is created when current is flowing.

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    @johanflores5051 11 місяців тому

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  • @KW-ei3pi
    @KW-ei3pi 11 місяців тому

    Excellent video. Very well made and extremely comprehensive. Thank you!

  • @Thesaurcery4U2C
    @Thesaurcery4U2C 11 місяців тому

    Electric Guitars... (rotary type)
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  • @varshneydevansh
    @varshneydevansh 11 місяців тому +1

    OMG this is just amazingly explained thanks gonna watch all of your videos

  • @Gnomur
    @Gnomur 11 місяців тому

    Your videos are not only interesting, they are fun to watch. Keep up the good work 👍

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    @LionelCissie-v2q 4 місяці тому

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  • @sky16678
    @sky16678 11 місяців тому +1

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  • @guspolly
    @guspolly 11 місяців тому +2

    In the radio and TV biz, audio faders are often called “pots”, which is short for potentiometer.

    • @John-ed2wj
      @John-ed2wj 11 місяців тому

      They are referred to as pots in every electronic industry

  • @anurag5470
    @anurag5470 11 місяців тому

    Your video so awesome explain simply and editing so smooth

  • @s_abhinav
    @s_abhinav 8 місяців тому

    The explanation and video quality was great ❤

  • @Blank-n7c
    @Blank-n7c 11 місяців тому +1

    One amazing potentiometer
    Uses of a potentiometer
    1. Voltage ⚡️💥
    2. Temperature ❄️🌫️🔥
    3. Volume 🔈🔉🔊
    4. Brightness ▪️🔅🔆
    5. Speed 🐌🐢🐇
    6. Frequency 📡📻
    7. pitch 🎼

    • @John-ed2wj
      @John-ed2wj 11 місяців тому +1

      Setting thresholds

  • @s.tamizharasan6765
    @s.tamizharasan6765 Місяць тому

    Thank you very much that was very helpful video.Very clear explanation.

  • @smidjepeter
    @smidjepeter 11 місяців тому

    This is really very well explained, now I understand how these really work!!
    thank you very much for this good video!

  • @jacobmichael1911
    @jacobmichael1911 11 місяців тому

    A great and in depth explanation, well done!

  • @bobegnops75
    @bobegnops75 9 місяців тому

    Youve helped me advance in my career. Thank you.

  • @BrentJosephSpink
    @BrentJosephSpink 11 місяців тому

    Love it! I use a giant rheostat to test circuit breakers. Single-phase 480vac in, 5-15vac out with large amounts of variable current for breaker testing.

    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +1

      Interesting to hear

    • @BrentJosephSpink
      @BrentJosephSpink 11 місяців тому

      @@EngineeringMindset Megger DDA-6000, the steering wheel on the right is connected to the rheostat

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      @EngineeringMindset  9 місяців тому

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  • @AhmedWajed
    @AhmedWajed 10 місяців тому

    Thank you very much for what you’re doing I am an electrical engineering student in my first year and this is helping me a lot ❤

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    @realkanavdhawan 11 місяців тому +1

    Thanks !!!
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  • @DarkTails256
    @DarkTails256 10 місяців тому

    Your long videos are great for going to sleep watching! Please make more

  • @bmitch3020
    @bmitch3020 11 місяців тому +1

    This needs a description of how some potentiometers go to 11. 🤘

  • @jdgower1
    @jdgower1 11 місяців тому +1

    In the RBG LED driver circuit at the end, what good is it to hook the black trace to the 3rd leg of each pot instead of just channeling the negative voltage through the RBG LED common leg? That seems to me to just create an unnecessary 333.333 ohm parallel resistor that isn't needed for driving the LED and is an extra drain on the battery ( about 27 mA) even when all pots are turned to their lowest (highest resistance) setting.

  • @chrimony
    @chrimony 11 місяців тому

    Excellent illustrations and demonstrations.

  • @JonakT
    @JonakT 11 місяців тому

    Reading topic in textbook was dreadful...
    So I skipped it 😅...
    Now that I watch this video not knowing this rotating thing is a potentiometer, I am amazed by knowing how simple it is, sir you are the best teacher...

  • @AlliyahMarco
    @AlliyahMarco 11 місяців тому

    We need moreeee!!! Im 15 and i was just depressed i wanna improve myself

  • @Gengh13
    @Gengh13 11 місяців тому

    Excellent editing and animations.

  • @brandonfarfan1978
    @brandonfarfan1978 11 місяців тому

    That was really informative. Thanks.👍

  • @saswattulo
    @saswattulo 11 місяців тому +2

    Nicely explained.

  • @nikolaford3973
    @nikolaford3973 11 місяців тому

    It's nice to see the upgrade in video quality

    • @EngineeringMindset
      @EngineeringMindset  11 місяців тому +2

      Thanks, a lot of hard work is going u to these new videos. Takes longer to make but quality is dramatically improved

  • @Festus2022
    @Festus2022 14 днів тому

    @ 2:31 you say the "outer track has resistive material OVER IT". I believe you mean that the outer track is COMPOSED ENTIRELY of resistive material? This would make sense, since if it was just COVERING conductive material, resistance would not vary with the knob.
    Please confirm. Thanks

  • @dimitrioskalfakis
    @dimitrioskalfakis 11 місяців тому

    comprehensive and well done. exemplary work.

  • @saablife6009
    @saablife6009 11 місяців тому +1

    Loved the videos. Please could you do a video on refrigeration superheat in Kelvin, possibly on a water, chiller system. These loads of videos out there but solely on air conditioning and in Fahrenheit. Obviously, American none are uk/eu based
    If you do make the video, could you go into detail with the Kelvin Scale
    Thank you

  • @mhnoni
    @mhnoni 9 місяців тому

    Thats the kind of ads that I don't mind watching it all. a relevant true ad, not a fake one or a scaming one.

  • @kabandajamir9844
    @kabandajamir9844 11 місяців тому

    The world's best teacher thanks sir

  • @goodun2974
    @goodun2974 9 місяців тому

    Two potentiometer variants not discussed here are L-pads, and tapped potentiometers. L-pads use a pair of intentionally mismatched, differing resistance-tapered elements (usually wirewound) in order to maintain a relatively constant impedance or resistance to the driver circuit/device regardless of the setting of the L-pad; These are often used as remote volume controls for speakers in other rooms, or as level-setting devices for tweeters or mid ranges, because the power loss (due to a non-optimal impedance loading to the amplifier) is somewhat minimized, and they won't change the frequency response of a speaker crossover as the added series resistance of an ordinary potentiometer would. Tapped potentiometers are sometimes used as audio amplifier volume controls in order to privide a constant, continuous, fixed-amount feedback signal for lowering distortion or to actuate bass/treble/variable-"loudness" circuits where the amount of bass is increased at low listening levels and automatically decreases as you turn up the volume , to prevent stressing the speakers.

  • @darky157
    @darky157 11 місяців тому

    i was thinking about this yesterday and this video popped in my recommended

  • @PCBWay
    @PCBWay 11 місяців тому

    Perfect video for potentiometer💯!

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 11 місяців тому +2

    Very well done.

  • @KillersWalkFree
    @KillersWalkFree Місяць тому

    These videos are great!

  • @MrAranton
    @MrAranton 11 місяців тому

    I made an electical experiment with an eight year old that involved making a potentiometer by layering a pencil‘s graphite onto paper. Her mind was blown when she saw that sliding the contact across the pencil line allowed to change the brightness of an LED.

  • @x1l3f86
    @x1l3f86 11 місяців тому

    Great work! I really enjoy your videos. Could you talk about field oriented control (FOC) for bldc motor control one day please!

  • @logictv6667
    @logictv6667 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice content i love it💟💕

  • @deadshotgaming6040
    @deadshotgaming6040 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you Sir Very much for making this video boz I need this for my test on topic resistance and you told very nicely ❤ once again I thanking you 💓💓
    Please like this comment 🙏

  • @shahid123galaxy
    @shahid123galaxy 8 місяців тому

    Awesome videos mate

  • @IyassuJoshua-pf3gy
    @IyassuJoshua-pf3gy 9 місяців тому

    A hands-on engineer doesn't stuff you up with crazy ass equations for hours which turn into nothing tangible at the end of the day 👏👏👏

  • @aya_ocab2113
    @aya_ocab2113 11 місяців тому

    This was helpful and wonderful💗

  • @awsomasaurus3019
    @awsomasaurus3019 11 місяців тому

    Hi Paul! I watch (Almost) all your videos. I have request for you. Can you please make a video on Peltier coolers? It's interesting to me that one side of the plate is cold, and the other side is warm. Thank you for all your amazing videos!

  • @jethrovic007
    @jethrovic007 11 місяців тому

    I am a big admirer of great stuff. This is great stuff.

  • @kyrianmoss8249
    @kyrianmoss8249 11 місяців тому

    Huge help for me as an upcoming tech

  • @itsmepk2163
    @itsmepk2163 11 місяців тому

    In multiturn trimmer potentiometer, once we turned it into the maximum position it will give us a clicking sound. Why was it happen? Will it cause anything to potentiometer or is there any safety mechanism for prevention of screw rotation?

  • @garyhenthorne29461
    @garyhenthorne29461 11 місяців тому

    I noticed from your posting an important fact you may review. This involves the variable to not go to zero. Say you have a 10k variable resistor and you only want it to go down to for instance 1k: The 10k is across pins one and three, the 1k would be from the vary pin to either pin one or three depending on the way of rotation needed. This causes the pins one and three to vary.

  • @alexpalsater7983
    @alexpalsater7983 5 місяців тому

    Great video! One question, I think I've seen led lights and other things also dim from a lower voltage, but at the end you were dimming that led with the current. Is there a more correct way of doing it or are both good options depending on what you fancy?

  • @voltampscircuits
    @voltampscircuits 11 місяців тому

    well done. i gained a ton of insight from this video. AMAZING!

  • @davidheal4623
    @davidheal4623 11 місяців тому

    There are a couple of small pots in one of my electronic control panels that can only be accessed with a jeweler's screwdriver. The pots have no physical stop on their rotational movement. I have been told to rotate the pot until I am sure it is past its upper/lower limit and then start slowly rotating it back for desired effect. How are such "no physical stop" pots made?? BTW, your videos are terrific!

  • @riversarcadereview385
    @riversarcadereview385 11 місяців тому

    Is it possible to have two different potentiometers on either parallel circuits or to use a standard switch to bypass the potentiometer to allow full current to access the device.

  • @XLR83D---R3CONNA1S4NCE
    @XLR83D---R3CONNA1S4NCE 11 місяців тому

    Bro you are working hard keep it up ❤️ Full support ☺️

  • @brlinf06398
    @brlinf06398 11 місяців тому

    this video is the most helpful

  • @VivekSuyal12345
    @VivekSuyal12345 11 місяців тому

    Best example is my fan button to lower or high the speed of it 😊😊 1:09 1:09 1:10 1:11 1:12 1:12 1:13 1:13 1:14 1:15 1:15 1:16

  • @pandoraeeris7860
    @pandoraeeris7860 11 місяців тому

    I can see the potential in something like this.

  • @Mrnow-786-v60
    @Mrnow-786-v60 9 місяців тому

    great effort good job⬆

  • @jacobmadmardigan
    @jacobmadmardigan 11 місяців тому

    I work on crown forklifts at an automated grocery distribution center that also uses 480V cranes and conveyor systems.

  • @weststarr2046
    @weststarr2046 11 місяців тому

    Love your vids...awesome work 💯
    BLESSINGS..!!!

  • @ursopolar6535
    @ursopolar6535 10 місяців тому

    Well done!

  • @durgvijaysingh9369
    @durgvijaysingh9369 11 місяців тому

    Amazing teaching#love from India#.

  • @playingshadows123
    @playingshadows123 4 місяці тому

    15:17 I am confused right here. I still don't have a good grasp on amps versus volts, and I can't imagine having no amps but volts, or having volts but no amps.

  • @stoner.07
    @stoner.07 11 місяців тому

    wonderful explanation !!

  • @hellscooker31
    @hellscooker31 9 місяців тому +1

    15:13 i dont get this can someone explain this