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Resistors.

Postby comesect2.0 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:26 pm

Are these 1k or 10k ?....and what's the difference when being used for volume control on a passive mixer?
Just got done painting/rehousing a passive mixer and now want to build some,
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So, what is best resistor for a passive mixers volume control.
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Re: Resistors question

Postby comesect2.0 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:23 pm

and I tend to gravitate toward 10K as a mix buss resistor, though you'll get a fair amount of crosstalk with hot signals.

This is why I ask because never had any crosstalk with this mixer and can't seem to find a color code that matches ^pic to help.
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Re: Resistors question

Postby crochambeau » Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:00 pm

comesect2.0 wrote:
and I tend to gravitate toward 10K as a mix buss resistor, though you'll get a fair amount of crosstalk with hot signals.

This is why I ask because never had any crosstalk with this mixer and can't seem to find a color code that matches ^pic to help.


It's kind of difficult to see the colors in the second pic, and I say that because it looks like there might be different values.

The first pic looks like yellow (4) orange (3) red (2) gold (5%) to me, which is a 4300 ohm resistor plus or minus 5%.

10K will be brown (1) black (0) orange (3 more zeros), or brown black black red depending on how many bands they painted, plus a tolerance band (unless it's a super old =/- 20%).
1K will see the multiplier reduced in value by one.

Clear as mud?

Black = 0
Brown = 1
Red = 2
Orange = 3
Yellow = 4
Green = 5
Blue = 6
Purple = 7
Gray = 8
White = 9

I generally use 10K for passive summing, 1K might work okay for a lot of stuff, but the lower you go the more potential issues you can meet. I know some people who have not flinched at connecting two outputs together with a straight bit of wire and called it a day, the notion gives me the EE heebie jeebies but I never heard them complain (this was in a noise application, and is generally bad practice).
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Re: Resistors.

Postby comesect2.0 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:58 am

for whom ever may need it....
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& I think they're 12k ........ :idk:
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Re: Resistors.

Postby comesect2.0 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:06 pm

10k pots are typically used, though I see 100k & b500k being used as well.... :excellent:, what if I were to use a b500k for my passive mixer...?
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Re: Resistors.

Postby BetterOffShred » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:40 pm

I would just lift one end with your soldering iron and toss the DVOM on there and check them to be sure!
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I can't really tell from the pic what those resistors are, but it looks to me like they have a gold 1% band, and I swear I see a yellow band on the other end.
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Re: Resistors.

Postby comesect2.0 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:50 pm

thats the best I could do (pic) because the bus's are hot glued and the whole thing is balanced on itself ready to snap,Thanks alot for the link.
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Re: Resistors.

Postby BetterOffShred » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:00 pm

Yeah man, sorry I couldn't have been more help there, but seriously if you DIY at all, get one of those Mega328's.. it's Ridonk for like$5. Helped me pick out a good pair of 1 ohm 3 watt resistors for biasing tube amps, really accurate!
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Re: Resistors.

Postby comesect2.0 » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:52 am

Meanwhile painted up this one waiting on parts.
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Re: Resistors.

Postby BetterOffShred » Thu Sep 14, 2017 5:54 pm

That's great man! It looks like some kind of super technocolor futuristic corrosion. And I mean that in the best possible way!
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Re: Resistors.

Postby Bartimaeus » Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:30 pm

Do you have a multi-meter with an ohmmeter setting? If not, I strongly recommend that you get one. In addition to showing you resistor values, you can use it to test the value of a pot at a setting (which you could potentially replace with a resistor) and just to check if two points in a circuit are connected. Really useful! Plus you'll want to be able to read pin values if you're designing an active mixer.
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