Basic electronics help needed / audio pot


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Posted by buzzdat on 29, 2001 at 4:18 AM:

OK, so I picked up a 10w+10w amplifier kit online and put it together tonight. The kit didn't come with any volume control, so I picked up a 100k stereo audio taper pot at the local Radio $hack.

And can't figure out how to hook the $#@ thing up.

Did some digging online, found some references re connecting the pot:

lug 1 - input
lug 2 - output
lug 3 - ground

Which works, except that I only get output at the top 90% of the dial (goes from silent -> quiet -> FREAKIN LOUD)

So I have some STOOPID questions:

(1) Is the volume control connected on the INPUT side (line-level) or the OUTPUT side of the amp?

(2) What is the proper way to connect the volume control?

Thanks for your help...

Buzz




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