--- title: Simulating Pots With LTSpice | daily.dev description: LTSpice lacks a built-in potentiometer component, but you can simulate one using two resistors representing the wiper segments. By setting one resistor as a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/simulating-pots-with-ltspice-tvvzmq70d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Simulating Pots With LTSpice | daily.dev og:description: LTSpice lacks a built-in potentiometer component, but you can simulate one using two resistors representing the wiper segments. By setting one resistor as a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/simulating-pots-with-ltspice-tvvzmq70d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tVVZMq70D.png og:image:alt: Simulating Pots With LTSpice og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Simulating Pots With LTSpice **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LTSpice lacks a built-in potentiometer component, but you can simulate one using two resistors representing the wiper segments. By setting one resistor as a parameter and calculating the other to maintain the total resistance, you can use the .step command to sweep through different pot positions. 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