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Old 31st Jul 2021, 10:05 pm   #1
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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?
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Old 31st Jul 2021, 10:27 pm   #2
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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think GJ is correct, I have a packet branded "RS" 2W high stability carbon film, which I have just measured.

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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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RS have a few... e.g. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/throu...istors/4852962

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Brilliant, thanks Andy.
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