Single-turn potentiometer with metal casing removed to expose wiper contacts and resistive track trimpot or trimmer pot: a trimmer potentiometer typically meant to be adjusted once or infrequently for "fine-tuning" an electrical signal.thumb pot or thumbwheel pot: a small rotating potentiometer meant to be adjusted infrequently by means of a small thumbwheel.slide pot or slider pot: a potentiometer that is adjusted by sliding the wiper left or right (or up and down, depending on the installation), usually with a finger or thumb.There are a number of terms in the electronics industry used to describe certain types of potentiometers: Potentiometers are rarely used to directly control significant power (more than a watt), since the power dissipated in the potentiometer would be comparable to the power in the controlled load. Potentiometers operated by a mechanism can be used as position transducers, for example, in a joystick.
Potentiometers are commonly used to control electrical devices such as volume controls on audio equipment. The measuring instrument called a potentiometer is essentially a voltage divider used for measuring electric potential (voltage) the component is an implementation of the same principle, hence its name. If only two terminals are used, one end and the wiper, it acts as a variable resistor or rheostat. A potentiometer is a three- terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
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