Center Detent Click B20K Linear Potentiometer

Center Detent Click B20K Linear Potentiometer Description

Center Click Detent 6.0mm Round Shaft 16mm Linear Potentiometer Mono B Mixer Pot B20K

This is one item of single gang, linear, conductive plastic track potentiometer. These are new items and come with a nut and a washer for mounting on a front panel. The round shaft is a true metric 6.0mm diameter. The mounting hole required is 7mm diameter. The connection pins will allow either PCB mounting or soldered wire connections.  The "B" prefix before the track resistance value denotes a linear track taper.  The maximum power rating is 0.2W.  The manufacturer is BI. The track tolerance is 10%.

The shaft length is a total of 16mm, where the threaded part is 6mm long and the turning part is 10mm.  There is a detent click in the centre of the rotation as used on some balance and tone controls.

If you have a pot with a track label of B253, this is a B25K where 3 is the number of zeros after 50 in Ohms.  A 502 would be 5K, a 472 would be 4K7 etc.  Sometimes pots may also be labelled with the B as a suffix i.e. 25KB.