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parallel resistors

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Topic: parallel resistors

Posted By: pegrik
Subject: parallel resistors
Date Posted: September 07, 2005 at 7:06 AM

forgot formula to determine value of parallel resistors ie 80 and 25 = ?



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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: September 07, 2005 at 8:15 AM
Use the parallel calculator on this site.  The equation for parallel wiring is 1/R total = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 etc ...

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Posted By: dk77
Date Posted: September 12, 2005 at 11:29 PM

When calculating two resistors in parallel, you can use the product over sum method.

                                                      (80x25)/(80+25)

                                               

 


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