Re: Frying Pan Guitar - Need R value for Pot

On Jun 21, 7:45�pm, "DaveM" <masondg4...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe you can explain why it isn't possible to measure the pot's resistance with
an ohmmeter? � And what is your procedure for measuring the voltage from the
pickup and arriving at the pot's value?

I don't recall anybody inferring that you don't know how to use the meter, but
it's becoming increasingly more obvious that you don't.


Dave,
Get a life.
The damn thing is nearly 70 years old, and in really bad shape.
I wouldn't trust any reading it gave me anyway, even if that reading
were correct.

I wish I had a photo of it, then you'd understand.
QUIT thinking this is some pristine part out of a Digikey order. It
is not.

Yes, I could have measured it - but I did not have a meter with me.
What is so god-damned difficult about understanding that very basic
fact?

And *** you anyway. Seriously.
It is becoming increasing obvious (to me) that you can't understand
what I previously posted.
This was never about how to measure a pot. That is basic electronics
101.
All I wanted was the value, and if you don't know it, then just shut
the *** up.

As for your comment that a direct measurement is the "easiest,
quickest and most reliable method...." Possibly, if you count the
$140 in gas, and the 10 hours on the road it would take me to actually
get back to the guitar with meter in hand. And of course, even that
would assume that the device in question had never been replaced by
previous owners over the past seven decades. I think you make way too
many assumptions here!

Respectfully, (to the extent I can be after a post like yours..)
-mpm

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