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Default Is the wattage linear on a wirewound adjustible resistor?

Phil Allison wrote:


** Typical hollow, ceramic WW resistors rated at 100W show no change
in value until the frequency is well over 100kHz.


** The above applies to resistors of 4 ohms resistance, or greater.

The trick is that for a given physical size, inductance values do not vary that much while resistance values vary over a range of 1,000,000:1.


...... Phil