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Is there ever any reason to prefer 5% tolerance resistors over 1%?
I work at an electronics store and the other day a customer came in who was rebuilding a circuit board. I sold him some resistors, but later he came back in wanting to return some of them because they ...
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Is there a way to average resistors together to get a tighter overall resistance tolerance?
I have a very sensitive, kHz frequency level, application where I need two matched resistors of the same resistance better than 0.05%. Like maybe by one magnitude (0.005%).
I am basically needing to ...
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How to calculate aging tolerance of Resistor?
I wanted to calculate the worst case minimum and maximum value of Resistor 1K by considering all the
tolerances(initial tolerance,temperature,environmental factors and aging).
Here is the link for ...
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Toubleshooting PCB circuit - strange Zener diode behaviour
I have two units of a device which I shall call deviceA and deviceB. DeviceB is malfunctioning.
Therefore I compared the resistance values of the same components on the boards of both deviceA and ...
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Can I use a 5% tolerance resistor instead of a 10% tolerance resistor?
can I use a 5% tolerance resistor instead of a 10% tolerance resistor? It is for an organ from the 60's. All resistors stated in Schematics are 10% 1/2 watt. But I can't find a 6.8k 1/2watt 10% ...
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