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Article #3676Re: Ease up on the current
From: Todd P. Whitesel
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 10:21
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 10:21
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Looks like you have two easy (?) choices: increase the resistor value so there will be less current and therefore less heat. get another resistor/transistor pair and run them in parallel so each only dissapates half the power (you'll have to fix the resistor values) and therefore half the heat. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
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