Keith Adams wrote:
Unless you live in a palm frond hut right on the sand then regular pots are
fine. If you get enough sand and salt into a carbon type to wreck it then
nothings going to last long.
The whole guitar should come unglued in about ..oh 6 months so why worry
about getting 1,000,000 turns outta your pots?

"Igor The Terrible" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hi:

I'm trying to find out if anyone has used the conductive plastic
potentiometers for guitars and/or for volume pedals for pedal steels
and had positive results with them. Living on the coast with
excessive salt air and sand is not exactly the ideal environment for
carbon pots in terms of getting much useful life out of them.

I got some info of Honeywell's website and they claim a 1 million
cycle life (rotational) for the 485 series and 100,000 cycle life for
the 380 series with both having 1% dynamic noise and conform to MIL-
R-94 specifications. Although they are a bit pricey--especially the
485 series, however, if they work as well as Honeywell's propaganda
claims, they may well be worth the investment.

Any insights or thoughts would be sincerely appreciated.




http://sensing.honeywell.com/index.c...=1&catId=79843



If you need long live for your pots, go for the
conductive plastic (servo quality) potmeters.
I have used different kinds in demanding tasks,
(Servo, steering wheel, gas pedals etc), where the
wiper vibrates a lot, causing ordinary pots
to fail within weeks.
The conductive plastic ones have never failed me,
also because the servo quality ones are better sealed
and have better bearings.
Livetime as steering wheel pot has run into several
years.(but they cost a lot of money.)