App note about conductive plastic used on motion transducers from Vishay. Link here (PDF) The polymer film track has a conductive plastic paste laid upon it. This paste includes an inert filler of carbon black which constitutes the basis of Vishay SFERNICE’s technology for manufacturing precision potentiometers. The resistive track obtained can be used: • […]
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App Note: Comparing digital and mechanical potentiometers
Microchip compares mechanical and digital potentiometers to digital. This app note explains the theory behind both versions, and their advantages and disadvantages. Mechanical potentiometers have advantages in terms of having a wide variety of values available and tighter specifications such as nominal resistance, tolerance, temperature coefficient, power rating and temperature range specifications. But in many […]