Here is a link to a white paper on 3D printing alleged to address production issues: http://www.ecnmag.com/white-papers/2012/11/new-mindset-product-design-3d-printing-can-help-bring-products-market-fa

I looked at the Ohmite catalog that I have and it looks OK. I am sure, you noted that OF series is rated 300 Vdc, so whether using two resistors to drop voltage load to half is going to give you anyth

Well, that is a bit off the point, Craig, it is the load that determines maximum tolerable ripple. If maximum ripple of power supply for given application was specified, what I have seen only couple o

Do not forget, getting high frequency plugs, like 7A29, for your 7104 would get you few extra bragging points at the bar, but you do not have to do that to get your money worth out of a 7104. It takes

That is sad to hear, but I guess everyone has a breaking point and can not be blamed when snaps. As for crashing when executing complex things, I guess, all of us users are to share blame: when instru

I believe that there is an additional resistor towards ground in the probe itself, so if probe gets unplugged or input resistor of meter is defective, only an attenuated voltage would appear at the te

Not quite so, Craig. The IRC, a stable mate of Welvyn, is offering carbon composition as IBT series in their catalog of unspecified date, I would guess late 90s. Those might be somewhat cheaper than W

But, Didier, are not all of us true technical people? Reading a manual is a measure of last resort and done only when no one can see us doing that. Miroslav

Now, Don, it does not need to be ham-fisted removal, all it takes is to look at the damn things crossly and they fracture. Several cap manufacturers would not warranty parts if they are hand soldered

A lot of modern hot swap devices, like disks in carriers have ground and power pins extra long so that connection is made first and there is not as much danger of feeding power supply through I/O, as

Hello Denis, Please, elaborate on this compatibility between 7K and 11K as much as you can and then some more. Does your sentence part '- this rolls them to a -10' mean '10K is a hybrid which works in

Leaching silver from capacitor ink or end-caps might have been a problem 15 years ago, but for long time, anyone who is significant in component manufacturing is putting a nickel barrier over end caps

Hello Michael, Consider 7104, it also uses MCP as 2467and does not have bad reputation for hybrids (it was manufactured in hay days of Tektronix). Lately, it's price seems to have dropped considerably

Hello Stefan, My replies are embedded in text below. Regards, Miroslav Pokorni

OK Stefan, Whatever you say. I did not expect 'ESR Meter' to have 100% coverage, because nothing does. Calling it ESR tester does not change anything for me, meter or tester. Intended and advertised p

Hello Didier, Now that you told us about good sides of carbon composition resistors, I was wondering what is your evaluation of modern days version of those resistors. A bad reputation for high drift

Well, you try to do that in city of LA or New York for that matter, but do not ask me to bring you a blanket and cigarettes while you are in residence at the city jail.

Now, Don, that is an unseemly expectation, for mere $49 you want an instrument that would distinguish between a near DC short and low ESR. Some people seem to treat those ESR meters as a silver bullet