Tone Pots: Audio or Linear taper?

It is great to hear you are doin ok. I removed and am prepping to install a new GAS water heater in my girlfriend's partially dug out dirt floor basement in mixed rain n snow/ice precip. The dirt/mud floor in the basement isn't much drier than the outdoors. Needless to say, I can't wait to make warm water again.
 
Just got done snowing, and it changed to rain here. It'll be 45 degrees in a couple of more hours. Hopefully, little shoveling for me in the morning.

I'm actually working from home for a few days, so trying to get some stuff tidied up in the cellar, and start the next phase of another wall, electricity, and permanent workbenches. This will be phase two of four. When done, I can go back to building guitars, working on amps and pedals, and also being able to comfortably write, practice, and record all in one tidy area
 
SG John said:
Just got done snowing, and it changed to rain here. It'll be 45 degrees in a couple of more hours. Hopefully, little shoveling for me in the morning.

I'm actually working from home for a few days, so trying to get some stuff tidied up in the cellar, and start the next phase of another wall, electricity, and permanent workbenches. This will be phase two of four. When done, I can go back to building guitars, working on amps and pedals, and also being able to comfortably write, practice, and record all in one tidy area
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No wonder why California is so expensive to live in... :facepalm:
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
It is great to hear you are doin ok. I removed and am prepping to install a new GAS water heater in my girlfriend's partially dug out dirt floor basement in mixed rain n snow/ice precip. The dirt/mud floor in the basement isn't much drier than the outdoors. Needless to say, I can't wait to make warm water again.
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@chilipeppermaniac
Has the reward of a hot shower chased Chilli's chill away?
Hope it turned out well; I feel your pain brother.

Because I know the time is short.
Let he who hath understanding reckon the number of the water heater.
For it is a wet, cold, human number; it's number is nineteen hundred and ninety nine......
 
JT Nope, No Hot water yet as the basement is a mud slime covered mess that I am just now dry enough to build a small form for pouring a concrete pad to keep the base of the heater up and out of future water pooling. Took a lunch break and time to verify height measurement of the heater so I don't make the concrete too high and not have enough room for the water lines and vent pipe. Fast setting concrete will allow me to set the heater in place by about 3 pm. Then hopefully it will just be minimal work to rehook up the gas and water lines.

I will try taking some pics of the difficult access, tight space and awkward area I have to shoe horn this unit into once I get farther along.
 
syscokid said:
Ha.. It's funny how the "puzzle piece" to my dilemma was the cap and not the pot. I think I'm going to try the original 250k Audio tone-pot again, and compare it with the 500k linear.
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As an update to this statement... I'm digging the original 250k Audio (A250K) pot. There is a much smoother transition of the signal from the control, between zero and half way. In the 500k linear I tried, the same frequencies are affected more abruptly... from zero to about 25%. Interesting. Not sure if it is the pots taper that makes the huge difference?... or is it the resistance value of the pot?... or is it both????????
 
syscokid said:
As an update to this statement... I'm digging the original 250k Audio (A250K) pot. There is a much smoother transition of the signal from the control, between zero and half way. In the 500k linear I tried, the same frequencies are affected more abruptly... from zero to about 25%. Interesting. Not sure if it is the pots taper that makes the huge difference?... or is it the resistance value of the pot?... or is it both????????
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I found the same thing when I tried Linear tone pots, the range was all crowded down the lower part of the pots rotation. Like, Id turn it down a little & nothing much would happen, turn down a little more etc etc, then it'd all happen quickly in the lower part of the rotation. Cheer
 
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syscokid said:
As an update to this statement... I'm digging the original 250k Audio (A250K) pot. There is a much smoother transition of the signal from the control, between zero and half way. In the 500k linear I tried, the same frequencies are affected more abruptly... from zero to about 25%. Interesting. Not sure if it is the pots taper that makes the huge difference?... or is it the resistance value of the pot?... or is it both????????
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its the taper
 
ive used both linear and audio tapers in my builds. i didnt like the linear because it seemed to work more like an on/off effect vs a gradual change in tone. theres a science behind it, lots of articles on the internet explaining how and why.
 
I recently did a pot/cap/pickup swap on my Double Neck, pulling the Thro-Bak SLE-101 in favor of a Kevin Taylor Erupter from Spectre. I can't recall exactly what I used, but it was a GREAT change. Good thing I took pics!!@!!

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