Special Notes: Potentiometer

For my loyal followers and learning viewers, hold on while I make the next lesson. In the mean time, enjoy this extra from my third lesson, adding a few things to your list of knowledge about the potentiometer. For those unfamiliar with this series all together, watch the previous lessons now! And now special note on potentiometers.

For those who saw my previous lesson, I described the way that you would connect a potentiometer to a battery would be to take its middle pin, called the input, and attach it to the ground. Power would be connected to the power as usual, and the ground terminal (not connected to LED) would as well go to ground. Here is where I would like to make a repeal. Remember, being that potentiometers follow a sensor design, this would technically be the proper format for constructing the circuit. But in this particular case, you do not need to connect the ground terminal to the battery's ground, being that technically, the input wire already connects to the ground.

Do not worry if you followed my previous design, either way, the circuit will work! I myself have confirmed this. But remember, this is for this specific kind of case alone. When directly hooking up any variable resistor (or 'sensor') to a power source and connecting its input to an out put device (like the LED shown in the circuit), you do not, I repeat, do not, have to connect the sensor's ground terminal to ground!

I hope you enjoyed this special note. Keep on watching and keep on learning. See you in lesson 4!