On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:59:25 UTC, wrote:

"Strangely, I have not come across a reverse linear pot anywhere. "

You probably have, in instrumentation somewhere. Just not marked as such. Like the intensity control of a scope or some **** like that. I could see there being applications like that. And some things just give you a part number and that's it.

I do bet they're rare though.

What you been smokin?