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Jeff Urban
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Got these resistors. My dude picked them up somewhere, 1K Âź watt Dales.. Little brown things.
The ALL read like 1.001K, some 1.002. So that is why the were cheap. Well actually I can live with that.
Anyway, our "quality control" testing included, after a few pints and tokes, a thermal characteristic test. Taking an average specimen and clipping it to the measuring device was adequate and then I put my butane lighter under it. Now I figure a Zippo is less suitable for this because of it having more hydrocarbons in the flue.
If they were to accumulate on the body they could reach 1 microSeimens which would affect the reading to 1/1,000 + 1/1,000,000 to get ohms. something like that.
So I am holding the lighter and we are both watching the Fluke. After a bit the resistor caught o fire.
That MFer still read 1.001K.
"I think it passed".
The ALL read like 1.001K, some 1.002. So that is why the were cheap. Well actually I can live with that.
Anyway, our "quality control" testing included, after a few pints and tokes, a thermal characteristic test. Taking an average specimen and clipping it to the measuring device was adequate and then I put my butane lighter under it. Now I figure a Zippo is less suitable for this because of it having more hydrocarbons in the flue.
If they were to accumulate on the body they could reach 1 microSeimens which would affect the reading to 1/1,000 + 1/1,000,000 to get ohms. something like that.
So I am holding the lighter and we are both watching the Fluke. After a bit the resistor caught o fire.
That MFer still read 1.001K.
"I think it passed".