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ash@home.melbpc.org.au (Ash Nallawalla) wrote:

>This is a recommendation as a consumer and I have no financial
>interest in the topic.

>I was fed up with the poor quality of potentiometers ("volume
>control" in this case) found in clock radios.  I rarely
>adjusted the volume on my clock radio, yet the control would go
>scratchy very quickly, i.e. at certain settings there was no
>volume.  Eventually vibration would cause the setting to move
>to one of these positions and I'd miss the alarm some mornings.
>(Reminds me of hotel clock radios.) I have tossed out two such 
>radios (both had a phone too).

The fact that you rarely adjust the control was the reason it went
quickly. Had you thought, you would have come to the right conclusion.
You would then have turned to control up and down 10 -20 times and the
bother would have stopped. It was realise in olden days and therefore
the control was ganged with the on/off switch and you had to use it -
we as technicians had less trouble.

Now of course we are using electronic controls and the volumecontro as
such does not exist on a TV. Cheap radio, yes.