Hello all! I am having one heck of a time trying to figure out how I should/need to wire this component to get use from it. Google has yielded some help but nothing that definitely answers my question: How do I connect this component?
The first thing I did was Google variable capacitors, which got me off in the right direction, but after finding out it's typically called a tuning capacitor, it eventually led me here. The part maker is Mitsumi and the model listed on the product itself PVC-2LXT-L. I did locate one data-sheet however it did not specify how to connect the pins to one another. I would relate it to having a 555 timer for example and knowing what all the pins do, but not actually knowing the pin numbers. That makes it useless if you do not know that information.
My oscilloscope was the first thing I turned to, which mind you I have only owned for one week, and I was going to connect the capacitor up how I felt it would naturally be, which is that the pins, 3 on each side, the middle was ground & the other two were your anode and cathode respectively. I suspected that when the capacitor was going up or down in capacitance that this would somehow alter the amplitude of a wave or the frequency, neither of which I observed (for what it's worth).
My next stop was Instructables, but that site has been buggy for me as of late, so here I am bringing this issue to you all. And rest assured, the answer to this thread I will be making a tutorial/how to video of this component so someone else done the road can hopefully find an answer.
This information may or may not be relevant, but I did salvage this unit and about 4 others from older (80's/90's) AM/FM radios/stereos/boomboxes. So their purpose is clearly for tuning and manipulating frequency/amplitude of waves, I just can't get it to do so.
The first thing I did was Google variable capacitors, which got me off in the right direction, but after finding out it's typically called a tuning capacitor, it eventually led me here. The part maker is Mitsumi and the model listed on the product itself PVC-2LXT-L. I did locate one data-sheet however it did not specify how to connect the pins to one another. I would relate it to having a 555 timer for example and knowing what all the pins do, but not actually knowing the pin numbers. That makes it useless if you do not know that information.
My oscilloscope was the first thing I turned to, which mind you I have only owned for one week, and I was going to connect the capacitor up how I felt it would naturally be, which is that the pins, 3 on each side, the middle was ground & the other two were your anode and cathode respectively. I suspected that when the capacitor was going up or down in capacitance that this would somehow alter the amplitude of a wave or the frequency, neither of which I observed (for what it's worth).
My next stop was Instructables, but that site has been buggy for me as of late, so here I am bringing this issue to you all. And rest assured, the answer to this thread I will be making a tutorial/how to video of this component so someone else done the road can hopefully find an answer.
This information may or may not be relevant, but I did salvage this unit and about 4 others from older (80's/90's) AM/FM radios/stereos/boomboxes. So their purpose is clearly for tuning and manipulating frequency/amplitude of waves, I just can't get it to do so.