IF that is the value, then it is 47K - however, I don't think I've ever seen a pot of that value - pot values usually go 1, 2, 2.5, and
5, followed by some number of zeros.I suspect that 473 is (part of) the maker's model number, not the value.
47000
The 3 is the number of zeros, 4.7K would be 4D73 "D" for the decimal point....
Peter,
47K is a pretty common pot. TomJust to confuse things, the standard speed control pot for a curtis golf cart controller is 5K, I dont think the K matters... you could use a 10K or a 20K pot and it wold work fine. You used to be able to get 1 meg pots back in the tube TV days.... that might make the controller a little squirrly and noisy..... like touching the tip of a hi impedance guitar cord......
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--- Really? I don't think I've ever seen one. If his _is_ 47k and it's a 10% pot, then its lowest resistance, end-to-end (neglecting terminal resistance) will be 42300 ohms, and its highest resistance will be 51700 ohms.
More than likely it's a 50k pot with an element tolerance of 10% and terminal resistances, on both ends, of 100 ohms or less.
-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
I have a broken pot with 473 written on one side - is this 4.7K or 47K ? I always forget. :)
Thanks
47 + 3 0=47000, or 47K
Thanks all. :-)
Hmmm - I see pots with various odd values listed on the Maplin site, but almost all pots listed in the Newark catalog have values in the 1,
2 (or 2.5), 5 sequence. Those odd values must be a British thing.If the original poster does have a 47K pot, I'm sure he can safely replace it with 50K, which may be more readily available.
Special order at Newark, but available.
I've not seen any marked that way, more likely 472 or 4K7
Bye. Jasen
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