{"id":9,"date":"2019-10-20T00:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-10-20T02:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T02:52:37","slug":"til-variable-resistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/2019\/10\/20\/til-variable-resistors\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL: Variable Resistors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/s-l1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\"\/><figcaption>104 would be 100,000 \u03a9 or 100 k\u03a9  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I learned how to interpret the values of trim pot resistors based on the printed text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back story: I recently found the wonderful world of cheap eBay electronics. This weekend I finally sat down with some trim pot variable resistors and learned that the 130 pieces I purchased were in separate bags for a reason. There are 13 different base resistance values &#8230; which I promptly mixed together in a fit of ignorance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to the internet and some searching and I now know how to interpret the three numbers printed on each. For example: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> 502: 50 x 10^2 or 50 x 100 or 5,000 Ohms <br> 502 would be a 5 k\u03a9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned how to interpret the values of trim pot resistors based on the printed text. Back story: I recently found the wonderful world of cheap eBay electronics. This weekend I finally sat down with some trim pot variable resistors and learned that the 130 pieces I purchased were in separate bags for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/2019\/10\/20\/til-variable-resistors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TIL: Variable Resistors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,2],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-i-learned","tag-electrical","tag-til","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rthndr.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}