Resistors help??

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Topic: Resistors help??

Posted By: KBToys
Subject: Resistors help??
Date Posted: December 26, 2002 at 8:05 PM

Looking at the wire digram for the car that I will be installing it says to use a 1k resistor so I went down to radio shacks to get. My problem is there are more than one 1k resistor each one had a different number for watt and tolerance. So which one should I get?

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Posted By: TomEllis
Date Posted: December 27, 2002 at 2:30 PM

Does the wiring diagram say what wattage is recomended?

If it does not say, then a 1/4 watt resistor should be fine. As for the tolerance, I do not think that a close tolerance resistor is needed. Do not worry about tolerance.

Tom

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: December 27, 2002 at 2:49 PM

Normally a ¼ watt resistor at 5 % is good enough ( GOLD band as final color )

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

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