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Jolly 7 · 9th Sep 2019, 4:24 pm

The aim of mounting the pot the way I did was to make it panel mountable and make the entire unit fit in a case. I would not have been able to do that with the supplied blue pot with a tiny screw for voltage adjustment. In relation to the wiring of the pot, the PCB already came with a tracing linking the wiper to one end of the track.
I selected a 22K panel mountable pot because I have no more 10K ones, at least for now. I also suspect my 10K pot may have been burnt by the IC, because it was reading in the megaohm range when I tested it after desoldering.

9th Sep 2019, 4:24 pm	#44
Jolly 7 Octode Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Posts: 1,063	Re: Defective/ fake LM317T The aim of mounting the pot the way I did was to make it panel mountable and make the entire unit fit in a case. I would not have been able to do that with the supplied blue pot with a tiny screw for voltage adjustment. In relation to the wiring of the pot, the PCB already came with a tracing linking the wiper to one end of the track. I selected a 22K panel mountable pot because I have no more 10K ones, at least for now. I also suspect my 10K pot may have been burnt by the IC, because it was reading in the megaohm range when I tested it after desoldering.