Important: Dust Covers for 16mm Potentiometers!

[music6000]

I believe this is mandatory for Dust covers on Pots under the PCB.
It is a on going Issue that should be standard practice in Builds.
This stops the PCB from shorting out on the metal back of the Pot :
They come standard with Tayda Alpha 16mm Pots.
UPDATE: Alpha stopped supplying Tayda Pots with Dust Covers on some 16mm Potentiometers.
You need to Order the Dust Cover separately!
5 Cents each!

 

[droneshotfpv]

I've always been the guy that says Condoms removes all the feel.... Who needs condoms!
Also, all my pedals are infected, so now I use them religiously.. lol
I had the literal ONE time I didn't use a dust capped POT cause a short due to clearance issues when I built the UberDrive... I was like "seriously, the one time I didn't wrap it up?" haha

 

[BurntFingers]

100K OHM Logarithmic Taper Potentiometer PCB Mount Round Shaft Dia: 6mm

ALPHA - Get It Fast - Same Day Shipping

www.taydaelectronics.com

Alpha no longer supply the dust covers as standard, it's now a component you need to order by itself. They're only 5c each but don't forget.

 

[Feral Feline]

Or use milk tabs hot glued on ...


That's seriously annoying though. All my Alphas have the covers, I'm used to that and now they want me to PAY? They should've continued including them for "free" and just upped the price of the pots overall to keep their bottom-line accountants (and me) happy-ish.

 

[slacjs]

Has anyone else found that not putting a cover on makes them turn much more smoothly? It's as if the cover creates a vacuum effect and they're much stiffer.

 

[Deperduci]

saying it turns in to a restrictive ring at times making it harder for use?anyways I do need to order another mountain of the things had stretch where all the pots got nowhere near the boards either all at the edge or enough that I just had to solder them not fully seated it made a decent gap that impacts from dropping didn't move the board.

 

[PAGOON]

Or just slap a piece of electrical tape under the pot and make sure your solders are not sharp and pointed

I used alien tape before I stocked up on covers

 

[hamerfan]

You can pick up boxes of 50 on Amazon as well.

I don't see them on Amazon or eBay. Can someone post a link?

 

[jwin615]

I don't see them on Amazon or eBay. Can someone post a link?

Out of stock
Potentiometer Pot Dust Seal Cover, 50 pcs https://a.co/d/aANKp6c

Stompboxparts seems to have the best price stateside at 11 cents each

 

[Coda]

Rubber cement…

 

[KR Sound]

Wonder if there’s an affordable way to utilize bottle caps as there’s sooooo many of them already out there and I’d love to not have to make more plastic.

 

[hamerfan]

Musikding supplies little black rubber pads with their kits, but they don't protect the sides. They seem to be like rubber feet for enclosures.

 

[bean]

Cabinet drawer bumpers work well. No dust protection though. $0.03 per in 200 qty.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073SVKFYJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[Smrtokvitek]

Does anyone know where to get them other than on Tayda? Specifically in Europe. Tayda is out of the game for me. I was searching a lot and couldn't find it even on Aliexpress.

 

[yeeeargh]

Here are a few link to european shops:

Dust Seal Cover 16-TRN :: Other Pots :: Potentiometers :: Passive Components :: Electronic Parts :: Banzai Music GmbH

Dust Seal Cover 16-BLK :: Other Pots :: Potentiometers :: Passive Components :: Electronic Parts :: Banzai Music GmbH

Poti Abdeckung 16mm, 0,15

Abdeckung für alle 16mm Poti, ideal um einen unerwünschten Kontakt zwischen Poti-Rückseite und anderen Bauteilen im Gehäuse zu verhindern

www.musikding.de

Potentiometer Staubschutz 16 mm

Staubschutzkappe für 16 mm Potentiometer

www.tube-town.net

Protector cap for Alpha 16mm pots

Semi-transparent plastic protective cap for 16mm Alpha potentiometers, suitable for any axis and terminal. Its purpose is to avoid electrical contact of the potentiometer housing and extend the life of the potentiometer by reducing the entry of dust to the internal area of the potentiometer.

www.retroamplis.com

Osłona potencjometrów 16mm

Osłona potencjometrów 16mm - Akcesoria - Potencjometry

amptone.pl

some of them also have dust covers for 24mm or other colors.

 

[Smrtokvitek]

Musikding stocks them now? Good news! That has to be new. They didn't have them a few months ago.

 

[Feral Feline]

Bzzz

Cross pollination...

Plastic potentiometer bumper protector thingamajigymabob

What's is the name of the clear plastic bumper/insulator/protector that fits on over the casing of potentiometers stopping anything from brushing up against it? Any idea where I can source them in the UK or EU? Many thx.

forum.pedalpcb.com

What I'm using (as shown elsewhere):

The puffy-stickers worked better than the black pot-condoms in the pic (black things lower left). As you can see the puffy-stickers are lower profile, they don't have the nipple reservoir end of the pot-condoms — so the pot-shaft slides into the enclosure more easily and has a better fit.

REMEMBER, KIDS!
Puffy stickers should NOT be confused with POT-STICKERS!



I tried, but they didn't work so well. (Maybe because that's a Xiao Long Bao and not a pot-sticker?)





Safety TIp: Don't eat, drink or be Mary when soldering — unless of course your name is Mary, but still don't eat or drink while handling solder

 

[franblanc]

Jeds Peds in the UK sell the pot covers. Otherwise it's like the man said. PedalPCB Margarita (with a sprinkling of 60/40 tin lead solder.)

 

[FuzzyLotus]

For anyone with access to a 3d printer: I've designed some covers that will do the job -

I print mine in TPU (flexible filament) but PLA may do the job..

Printables

www.printables.com

Cheers!