6 May
2005
6 May
'05
11 a.m.
Wow! That is a mother of a resistor! :-)
Must be one of those aluminum clad ones?
The traditional type are coated glass tubes about 50mm
in diameter. The newer type are some sort of sintered
material and around 20mm in diameter. When the new type
fail they just burn amd crumble, the older glass type
would bubble and run like a small child's nose does. 8^)=
Lee.
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