0 a device for measuring electrical potential (= difference in amount of electrical current between two points) -- woltomierz
1 a device for changing the resistance (= how much something prevents the flow of electricity through it), used especially to control volume (= how loud something is) -- potencjometr
Simple servomotors may use resistive potentiometers as their position encoder.
Common control components used include potentiometers, variable capacitors, and rotary switches.
The controls are analog switches and potentiometers but do not adjust the synth cards directly.
The mechanical type requires debouncing and is typically used as digital potentiometers on equipment including consumer devices.
By tuning the potentiometers, a short repetitive rhythmic motif or riff can be set up.
Most (cheaper) log potentiometers are not accurately logarithmic, but use two regions of different resistance (but constant resistivity) to approximate a logarithmic law.
User-actuated potentiometers are widely used as user controls, and may control a very wide variety of equipment functions.
The 2 sticks each used a pair of potentiometers, but were not self-centering.
