Sentence examples for potentiometer from inspiring English sources

This displacement is converted to an electrical output by a pointer fixed to the mass moving over the surface of a potentiometer attached to the housing.

Since the current supplied to the potentiometer remains constant, the movement of the pointer causes the output voltage to vary directly with the acceleration.

The potentiometer operates by comparing the voltage to be measured with known voltage; it is used to measure very low voltages.

This is the simplest version of what is called a linear-displacement transducer, or linear potentiometer.

Above each potentiometer were two lighted buttons: a red one, which eliminated the track from the playback, and a white one, which permitted the operator to isolate the track from the rest of the music.

When presented with larger freight like "potentiometer," the Voder stumbled groggily, like a darted bear.

The knobs or "pots" (short for "potentiometers") control the left-to-right balance, but twisting a dial with a mouse makes little sense.

Resistors can have a fixed value of resistance, or they can be made variable or adjustable within a certain range, in which case they may be called rheostats, or potentiometers.

To the left of the potentiometers were equalizer and reverb buttons and dials, which were used to color sound and to provide an illusion of space.

We asked Mr. Shepard how these electronic miracles were accomplished, and he indicated a bank of potentiometers — small black up-and-down levers that controlled the volume levels on the twenty individual tracks.

He literally wrote the book on outer space potentiometers, contributing to Space Vehicle Mechanisms and Design, the industry textbook.