Electronics Pots

With reference to the below circuit, is it possible to use some 10K Pots in place of the Rehostats.......its just I have loads hanging about and thought I might as well use them on something constructive


Thanks all

 

arent pots n rheostats the same?

 

Oh right, are they??? Cool, I feel stupid now!!!!

 

no

pots are adjustable in an analogue since, as in there is an inifnte number of possibilites between 1 and 0 with a pot

a rheostat is a adjustable resistor which has fixed levels between 1 and 0...

 

arrrr, good, I dont look as stupid now, phewww!!!

So could I use a Pot instead, or will it not work

 

yeah it should do

 

10k pots are designed to carry a milliamp or so, a fan will burn one out.

Rheostats are low resistance, wire-wound, and designed to carry higher currents.

So they're very similar, but don't do the same job.

 

cheers cpemma, do you have a mapln code or link to them cause I cant find the on the site, and the code given in the article is wrong

 

Maplin dropped them, click possible new source.