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Article #15077Re: Wow, really BIG resistors....
From: Ken Mikolajek
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:48
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:48
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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????? > >-- >paul marxhausen .... ....... ............. ............ ............ .......... How about space! The final frontier :) where the "atmospheric" impedance is less that 100 teraohms. I don't think these resistors/insulators would be of much use outside of a vacuum. Ken.
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!emr1!mikolaje From: mikolaje@ccrs.emr.ca (Ken Mikolajek) Subject: Re: Wow, really BIG resistors.... Message-ID: <1992Dec22.204845.4678@emr1.emr.ca> Sender: news@emr1.emr.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: nova.ccrs.emr.ca Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa References: <1gag1gINNcvf@crcnis1.unl.edu> Distribution: global Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:48:45 GMT Lines: 19