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Precision and manufacturing of resistors
I am trying to understand why there is variations in resistance values, in other words, why there is difference in the value of the resistance between color code and the measured resistance. Also, how ...
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Pull Up and Pull Down Resistor Values [duplicate]
I usually use 10K Ohm resistors for pulling up or pulling down micro-controller lines. This is only because I have tons of them.
Recently while looking up pick and place surface mount information I ...
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Why are we still using resistors with 5% tolerance while they can even manufacture a 14.318182MHz crystal?
Year is 2012 and I can only find 5%-tol resistors in the local market. They can make transistors at molecular scale, they can manufacture 14.318182MHz crystals, they can place trillions of flip-flops ...
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