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Say if I had a circuit, and there was a particular resistor I wanted to try different values in place of it.
For instance, the stock value was 4.7k.
I want to use a switch to change that value to 2.4k and 1k.
Would I be able to put all 3 resistors on a DPDT switch and have wires coming from the circuit board?
OR
Would I have to keep the stock value at 4.7k and try and put other resistors on the switch in parallel to knock it down to 2.4k and 1k?
Would I need to use an on/on/on switch or an on/off/on switch?
My other question is this:
If I have a 500k pot, and I add a 500k resistor in series on a switch that will modify the pot to 1M, would this then only function from 500k to 1M, as opposed to the 0 to 500K straight from the pot?
Would using a 1M pot and a 1M resistor in parallel be a better way of achieving this? In this case, the resistor would make the pot work as a 500k pot, put if I removed the resistor, it would return to a normal 1M pot.
For instance, the stock value was 4.7k.
I want to use a switch to change that value to 2.4k and 1k.
Would I be able to put all 3 resistors on a DPDT switch and have wires coming from the circuit board?
OR
Would I have to keep the stock value at 4.7k and try and put other resistors on the switch in parallel to knock it down to 2.4k and 1k?
Would I need to use an on/on/on switch or an on/off/on switch?
My other question is this:
If I have a 500k pot, and I add a 500k resistor in series on a switch that will modify the pot to 1M, would this then only function from 500k to 1M, as opposed to the 0 to 500K straight from the pot?
Would using a 1M pot and a 1M resistor in parallel be a better way of achieving this? In this case, the resistor would make the pot work as a 500k pot, put if I removed the resistor, it would return to a normal 1M pot.
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