Potentiometers - How They Work, Disassembly and Exploration

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In this video, I disassemble a couple different pots (Bourns and CTS 500k audio taper) to show how they're constructed, and explain how they work. I also show how to identify pot values and taper by their markings and by measuring with a multimeter.
**Correction: at 6:25, I said it backwards. Narrower has more resistance than wider. For the same length, a thinner wire has more resistance than a thicker wire. Similarly, at 4:37, it would have been clearer to say "longer length, more resistance".