The eagle-eyed may have noticed that last night a couple of new CTS lines were added to the store. Split shaft linear taper pots. Also a couple of different length shafts – the short shaft are for scratchplate/control plate mounting and the medium shaft will work for many body mount situations as well as plate mounting. Audio taper are also available in both options.
These arrived with the shipment last week but I had to confirm the tapers with the supplier before listing. Hosco have had the linear taper pots stamped with “BXXXk” and as you know CTS code for linear taper is “D”. I asked Hosco to confirm the taper and asked why they were marked “B” and they told me that the taper is “D” but they have always had their CTS linear pots marked B. I assume they wanted consistency with the alpha pots they supply.
Just to be sure I nipped out to Toolstation and picked up a pocket multimeter and lo and behold, they are linear taper. (I also took the time to test all the other pots and confirmed that the TVT pots are 20% as I have been advertising and not 30% as they state.)
So now you know – CTS will stamp whatever a customer wants on the back of pots, even if it causes confusion!
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