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Michael Terrell Michael Terrell is offline
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Default Resistor colours

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 6:44:33 AM UTC-5, wrote:
No fight perceived. Just attempting to point out to the OP and other speculators that these colors are not by accident, and in some cases convey critical information, such as fusible and/or flameproof resistors, not to be replaced with standard types.


Peter, Ii can remember when those Flameproof resistors first went into use. Some consumer equipment had notices to use them for repairs, instead of the Carbon Comp. Others had warnings to only replace them with Flameproof, but as usual most of the hacks ignored the OEMs, because the resistors cost more, and weren't as well stocked by the wholesalers. These were the same losers who refused to properly hand MOSFETs and static sensitive ICs. I got tired of hearing, 'If they can't make good parts, let them go out of business.' If it were up to them TVs would still be all tube.