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Resistors anyone?
In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:
Nowadays, all the resistors I buy seem to be 2%, which is the E96 series.
Oops, E48 series.
(E96 series is 1%).
However, most suppliers still supply only E24 values, albeit still at 2%.
This means the are large gaps between valid values of 2% resistors in
the E24 series (not worked it out, but if you take random values, I
suspect somewhere around 75% of them will be invalid E24 2% resistors).
However, resistors aren't just crude carbon rods anymore. They are made
to have the required values, and can be laser tuned during manufacture.
I suspect if you bought a bag (or bandolier) of 100x 5%, you'd be more
likely to find they all +3.55%, or some such.
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Andrew Gabriel
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