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- From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
- Subject: Re: Wow, really BIG resistors....
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:00:45 GMT
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- In article <1gag1gINNcvf@crcnis1.unl.edu>, mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu (marxhausen paul) writes:
- |> I finally got in touch with the right folks at Dale and got their full
- |> line catalog so I can find the 1 gigaohm resistor I need. But hey, turns
- |> out that's nuthin'...they have resistors in values up to _100 teraohms_,
- |> that's, uh, 100,000,000,000,000 ohms. There are a few models where the
- |> _smallest_ value you can get is 10 Gohm.
- |>
- |> Yikes. What do these get used for? Especially the 40 watt and larger
- |> models?????
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- Insulation ?
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- Philip
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