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- From: mikolaje@ccrs.emr.ca (Ken Mikolajek)
- Subject: Re: Wow, really BIG resistors....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.204845.4678@emr1.emr.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:48:45 GMT
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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.
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- Ken.
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