Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o’clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 4:30.
Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
This is not at all the case.
Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o’clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 4:30.
That’s not the history of that thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second
dammit.
missed an opportunity…