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Exploring Vitreous Resistors
Are they always wire-wound ?
Repairing a scope found an O/C 12K vitreous resistor used as a ps dropper. Still dark green body and clear writing, no board discolouration and no reason to fail due to other failed components in line. I've never cracked open one of these so did so . White ceramic body and presumably a glass coating but no sign of any wire. So I cracked open a new 1.8K vitreous and that used about 3 thou wire spaced about 120 turns to the inch between the white and green. Returning to the ex 12K could not cleave the white and green sections and viewing edge on with a x30 microscope still could see no trace of any wire. Could it have been a metal-oxide layer instead ? Even the 1.8K one would seem to be physically very frail to use that small a guage of wire. Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse |
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... Are they always wire-wound ? Repairing a scope found an O/C 12K vitreous resistor used as a ps dropper. Still dark green body and clear writing, no board discolouration and no reason to fail due to other failed components in line. I've never cracked open one of these so did so . White ceramic body and presumably a glass coating but no sign of any wire. So I cracked open a new 1.8K vitreous and that used about 3 thou wire spaced about 120 turns to the inch between the white and green. Returning to the ex 12K could not cleave the white and green sections and viewing edge on with a x30 microscope still could see no trace of any wire. Could it have been a metal-oxide layer instead ? Even the 1.8K one would seem to be physically very frail to use that small a guage of wire. Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse Should anyone be interested, i poked around with needles connected to DVM in the area between white ceramic and green glass for about 5 minutes and could pick up not a hint of any resistance lower than the 30M limit of the DVM. Evaporated totally ? |
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