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Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.

the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.

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Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  dammit.
  
  missed an opportunity…
  
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FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

so they stop at 11

you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.

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- xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  At the 11 o’clock position, I think they mean. That’s a bit arbitrary tho
  
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  - helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Even the 11 clock position makes no sense, most amps will go from 8 to 4.
    
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    myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    …IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…
    
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keepthepace@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s not the history of that thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

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synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is not at all the case.

Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o’clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 3:30.

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