How Potentiometers Work - With Real-Life Examples (How to Wire)

In this animated overview of potentiometers, we work with our Friend of CircuitBread, CUI Devices, to provide a conceptual review of potentiometers, showing how they work using some animated examples. After learning about potentiometers from a conceptual point of view, we show how they work with two practical examples (how wiring potentiometers works). We learn about potentiometers with a practical speaker example using potentiometers before integrating a transistor into our circuit and create a practical motor control example using a potentiometer. These two examples show how easy it can be to integrate potentiometers into any electronics project.

We made this video with CUI Devices and it goes extremely well with their written content that you can find at https://www.cuidevices.com/blog/all-y...

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Review of how potentiometers work
0:40 How is resistance calculated?
1:16 How does a potentiometer work?
3:15 Music volume example with potentiometer
4:30 DC Motor Potentiometer example with potentiometer
5:37 Check out CUIDevices.com!
5:57 What else is there on CircuitBread.com?

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