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Question about mounting new rotary and slider potentiometers on a controller - SynthWizard - 12-26-2019
Question about mounting new rotary and slider potentiometers on a controller
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm looking to build a new midi controller and I have a question about mounting the potentiometers. I know this is a synth sub, but I bet there are many people here that have opened/repaired synths and can offer some advice.</p> <p>My general plan is to mount rotary and slider pots on a pcb and then mount the pcb to my enclosure. It looks to me that while most slider pots come with threaded holes for panel mounting, mosty synths/controllers do not use them. I think this could partly be because the standard mounting height on a slider pot is 7 mm (distance from the top of the pot to the bottom of the panel), while most rotary pots look to be closer to 9 or 10 mm.</p> <p>Can anyone confirm that the pots are usually just soldered to the pcb with no extra support? Or, are there some other mounting methods?</p> <p>​</p> <p>thanks</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dougshmish"> /u/dougshmish </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/eg09ef/question_about_mounting_new_rotary_and_slider/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/eg09ef/question_about_mounting_new_rotary_and_slider/">[comments]</a></span>