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Re: cold resistors

At 2:20 PM -0500 1/3/00, Clarence Bennett wrote:

If you take a large sample of 20% resistors, most of them will be more than
10% high or low.

The 10% and 5% units are made in the same batch, but are selected out
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WERE! WERE!


before labelling.



Allan-Bradley (Speer) carbon composition resistors such as these are
standard low-temp indicators. When production was cancelled (in the
late 60¹s or early 70¹s) the low-temp research community formed a
consortium to buy up the final weeks production run of the most
favored values.

Any decent low-temp lab will have a secret stash of these babies on hand.



Most modern resistors are in the range of +/- 2% but are usually marked as 5%.

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