Confirm same part used in tutorial

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I (finally) found this

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&pa=1777671&productId=1777671&keyCode=WSF

Its labeled as a "AD5206BRU10"...Is this the same Digital Pot used in this tutorial? :-/

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Since your find is surface mount and the one in the tutorial is through hole, the short answer is no :wink:

Since it shares the AD5206 part number, its probably just a variant of the same chip. So the long answer is probably :slight_smile:

It seems through hole components, particularly the more complex ICs are going the way of the Dodo bird :frowning:

I could only find 1 digital pot in through hole from my supplier, whereas they had dozens in surface mount.

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so I want a "AD5206BN10" (PDIP)?

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you should check the part code rather than rely on the description, I came unstuck last week when I ordered what I thought were pdip digital pots as they were described as such on the supllier website and came up via a search for dip/pdip parts, when they arrived they were SOIC :confused: the website description is wrong but the part number was correct for the SOIC version so always check the part number with the manufacturer and you should be ok.