volume control short

[maiden73]

can anyome tell me how to fix a short in a volume control on a stereo?

 

[stevez]

Is it an older style potentiometer (variable resistor)? Regardless - most 'controls' for volume and other functions can be pretty compact and don't lend themselves to repair. The larger old pots could be opened and inspected - increasing the likelihood of making a repair. I presume that you've measured it to determine that it's shorted. Did you make the right measurement? Did you adjust it -take it thru it's range just to be sure you weren't seeing the value at one extreme of rotational or linear movement.

 

[Russlk]

Volume controls sometimes become open or noisy but I never saw a shorted one. I think you have a different problem.

 

[heathtech]

Did you make the right measurement? Did you adjust it -take it thru it's range just to be sure you weren't seeing the value at one extreme of rotational or linear movement.

Listen to SteveZ...what he is saying is that at one end of the potentiometer's rotation, it will be at near 0 ohms and look like a short.

If you didn't measure it with an ohm-meter, calling it a short is a bit presumptive.

What symptom is the volume control exhibiting?

 

[Roff]

Maybe it isn't shorted. Many people think "shorted" is a synonym for "defective".