What is a wirewound variable resistor?

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What is a wirewound variable resistor?

2007-07-06 03:05:41 · 3 answers · asked by jaedah 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering

3 answers

IDK

2007-07-09 21:29:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

It seems Rohan is very good at copy and pastr but didn't read the question.

A wirewound resistor has resistive wire wound around a former, rather like an old fashioned fire element, and a slider moves along the windings to provide the variable tap off point.

2007-07-06 10:29:18 · answer #2 · answered by Mike C 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋

Wiki has a couple of good pictures of this. See "rheostat" in this wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometer

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2007-07-06 13:27:30 · answer #3 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋