Resistor Wattage?
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Good Evening All,
Can someone please help by telling me the wattage of the 820R resistor in the photo? Will it be comfortable at 4W? Thanks. |
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It's a vintage carbon film resistor (used to be called 'cracked carbon' and/or labelled 'high stability'), made by Piher. I'm afraid it won't be comfortable at 4W. They certainly made them in 1/2W, 1W and 2W versions and possibly in smaller sizes too. But I don't think any were rated higher than that. I think yours is the 2W size, but I'd need to extract one from storage and measure it to be sure.
Cheers, GJ |
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I agree with GJ looks like a 2 Watt'r
I think I would be using a nice 7W wire wound if it were to be dissipating 4W continuously. Cheers Mike T |
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Crossed with Mike. John |
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Thanks for that, I very much feared that might be the case.
Having searched through the thousands of resistors which I have in stock, unfortunately, I have nothing suitable. 820 ohms, although a prefered value, does not seem to be available as 7W or 10W W/W. |
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That is a Radiospares 2W and No more.
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Brilliant, thanks Andy.
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