Re: Creating a higer wattage resistor
- From: John Ferrell <johnferrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:47:53 GMT
It works for me.
de W8CCW John
On 25 Aug 2006 12:36:01 -0700, "phaeton" <blahbleh666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
1) This is all hypothetical, and I'm not about to actually do this.John Ferrell W8CCW
2) I realize that doing this will be ugly, immoral, and is possibly
illegal in some states or religions.
3) I realize that it's cheaper, easier and all around better just to
use the right part.
4) I also realize that if one of the 'legs' fails, it means increased
current through the other legs (at least until the rest of it burns
up). In other words, if this fails it could ruin something else too,
burn down the house, eat all your cheese and impregnate your favourite
girlfriend.
Suppose you need a 10 ohm 5W resistor, and you don't have one on hand.
Can you 'create' one by connecting ten 100ohm 1/2W resistors in
parallel? Or fifty 500 ohm resistances in parallel? Or two-hundred
and fifty 2K5 ohm resistances in parallel? Or 1250 125K resistances in
parallel? On and on until you're holding up traffic by soldering
stuff out in the street?
:-P
-phaeton
p.s., it's friday. everyone lighten up.
.
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