18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
4:03 p.m.
"bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca" wrote:
Brent Hilpert wrote:
For 15 years he was selling a grey-body metal-film resistor which seemed of
reasonable or good quality, at least they were consistent and reliable. I think
they were Philips.
The new ones are a deep-blue-body (not flame-proofs) carbon-film type. Aside
Chuck Guzis wrote:
What are they ... I am building a amp and just using 1/2 watt carbon composition
for everything but power resistors. Actually, it seems as if NEW caps are just as bad
if not worse.
Chinese capacitor disease seems to be a pandemic.
One of the few remaining local parts retailers just switched resistor brands
after many years. The new ones are visibly crap
(but apparently they 'sound cleaner' to the audioph**les who are some
significant portion of his market). from the difficulty in distinguishing some color codes
against the deep-blue of
the body (leading to packaging errors, like 47K's in
the bag of 4.7K's), the
visible problem is that a fair portion of them out-of-the-bag have the final
protective coating formed into drips as they dried and too thin in spots (one
can see the resistive helix). They do not inspire confidence. I don't know the
actual manufacturer.