"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:26:26 -0500, Garey Barrell wrote:
>Pots that are _designed_ with a switch have a "dead space" at the >bottom of the rotation that is specified to allow the wiper to go to the >CCW rotation of the pot element without activating the switch and still >have enough mechanical travel to activate the switch. It can be argued that this is a "feature", not a "bug". It's not uncommon in the commercial radio world to have a "minimum volume level" that prevents users from turning the volume completely down, thus eliminating the "I didn't hear the call" excuse. And the TR7 design was, after all, offered commercially. These days, of course, it's done in software.... -- Jim Shorney -->.<--Put complaints in this box jshorney (at) inebraska.com Ham Radio NU0C Lincoln, NE, USA EN10ps http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
