21 Feb
2011
21 Feb
'11
1:50 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm going to strip the paint off the body of the
resistor and see if
I can find what the failure mode is. It's very odd--I'm not used to
seeing resistors that overrated failing.
Is that perhaps a so-called fusable resistor? They're intended to go open
(with the paint coming off of a small spot) instead of catching fire.
Christian