02-05-2025, 12:08 AM
MrFixr
Informally people indeed call wirewound pots rheostats sometimes. Tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.
Nothing wrong with it.
People used to call all off-road type SUV Jeeps.
I guess, because of the traditional lab rheostats were large wire-wound jobs, those porcelain wire-wound pots just like to be called that same name.
When I first learned of these, they were all (in Russian) called "variable resistors".
Informally people indeed call wirewound pots rheostats sometimes. Tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.
Nothing wrong with it.
People used to call all off-road type SUV Jeeps.
I guess, because of the traditional lab rheostats were large wire-wound jobs, those porcelain wire-wound pots just like to be called that same name.
When I first learned of these, they were all (in Russian) called "variable resistors".
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