I have a little oil heater in my house that is on the fritz. Its "Off-High-Med-Low" switch is just basically gone. While I might be able to dig out another switch from some of my electronics junk, I was wondering: Is it AT ALL possible to use a potentiometer in place of this 4 position rotary switch?
It seems legitimate - Basically, instead of 4 positions, it seems like I'd now just have something like 270 positions...lol. At the time being, I only have something like 62 cents to my name and a lot of cold weather between now and more money, so I'm 100% going to have to just repair this heater instead of replace and 100% going to have to repair it with stuff that I have laying around.
Thanks for any help - If anyone can help, you'll have the knowledge that you kept me from freezing to death...