# Panel Mount 10K Dual Log Potentiometer - 10K Dual Log

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** ADA3394 · **Brand:** [Adafruit](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/adafruit-australia)
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This Panel Mount 10K Dual Log Potentiometer is a dual-ganged potentiometer that will satisfy all your stereo-signal needs. Instead of just one potentiometer, you...

## Pricing

- **Price:** $3.40 (inc GST) — $3.09 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 10+ $3.00 (exc GST) · 50+ $2.94 (exc GST)

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## Description

This **Panel Mount 10K Dual Log Potentiometer** is a dual-ganged potentiometer that will satisfy all your stereo-signal needs. Instead of just one potentiometer, you actually get two separate pots, 'ganged' together. Turning the grippy shaft twists both standard logarithmic-taper 10Kohm potentiometers. It's smooth and easy to turn, but not so loose that it will shift on its own. [They also offer this potentiometer in a singular configuration](https://core-electronics.com.au/panel-mount-10k-log-potentiometer-breadboard-friendly-10k-log.html).

Potentiometers, or "pots" to electronics enthusiasts, are differentiated by how quickly their resistance changes. In linear pots, the amount of resistance changes in a direct pattern. If you turn or slide it halfway, its resistance will be halfway between its minimum and maximum settings. That's ideal for controlling lights or a fan, but not necessarily for audio controls. Volume controls have to cater to the human ear, which isn't linear. Instead, **logarithmic pots** like this one increase their resistance on a curve. At the halfway point volume will still be moderate, but it will increase sharply as you keep turning up the volume. This corresponds to how the human ear hears. Using a log pot therefore gives the effect that a setting of full volume on the control sounds twice as loud as a setting of half volume. A linear pot used as a volume control would give large apparent changes in loudness at low volume settings, with little apparent change over the rest of the control´s range.

Unlike some of Adafruit's other potentiometers, this one is *not* breadboard-friendly. The pins are about 0.2" apart so it will *fit* into a breadboard, but the two rows are close together so you'd short the two halves. Thus, we suggest soldering wires to the pins as necessary, using these in a perf-board that doesn't have the rows connected, or designing a custom PCB.

Once you're done prototyping, you can drill a hole into your project box and mount the potentiometer using the included washer and hex nut. [Adafruit have got plenty of matching T18-splined knobs that you can pair up](https://core-electronics.com.au/search/?q=t18%20knob&).

## Technical Details

- 10K ohm potentiometer, log taper
- 100,000 Cycle Life
- 16mm Body
- Rotational travel: 300°
- Static Stop Strength: 90 oz-in
- Rotational Torque: 0.5 to 1.25 oz-in

Product Dimensions: 26.5mm x 25.0mm x 17.0mm / 1.0" x 1.0" x 0.7"

Product Weight: 7.5g / 0.3oz

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