On 2012-10-25, Packratpaul wrote:

"Ignoramus15542" wrote in message
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Snip stuff.
I bought two 20 ohm 300W resistors and I will connect them in series.


Your 20 ohm 300 watt resistors in series will be 40 ohms at 300 watts.
If you parallel them, you will have 10 ohms at 600 watts.......Paul



watts refer to power dissipation ability, it does not matter if they
are series or paralleled, they still can dissipate 600 watts.

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