Obscure resistor, what is it?

[peranders]

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3896/motstndn.jpg

What is this, the big resistor?

[Steve Dunlap]

That looks like a 1/2W carbon composition resistor.

[SA-12]

if I was to guess it is a 6.8 ohm 1 or 2 watt carbon composition (or film) resistor 5% and it looks like it is cracked so I bet it is open.

does the resistor have smooth rounded edges or is it built like a perfect tube with sharp edges.

[SA-12]

looks like a television chassis

[peranders]

I'm a bit puzzled by the rings: Blue, Silver, Gold, Black, Brown.

[cliffforrest]

Or it is Brown, Black, Gold Silver Blue

which is 10 x 0.1 5% = 1R 5%, but I dont know what Blue is!

http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronic...color_code.php

Cliff

[peranders]

I think I have the answer. It's a fusible resistor

1.0 ohms, 10%, fusing characteristics 12 times

http://www.hkresistors.com/PDF/A7.pdf

[MoodySteve]

That just looks like a 1W or 2W Allen-Bradley resistor. AB resistors have that brown cylindrical body.

Here are some examples:

[AndrewT]

blue silver for the first two digits does not make sense.
It appears to be brown (1) black (0) gold ( *0.1) silver (10&#37.
I cannot explain the blue banding. temp coef (unlikely) fusible (don't know).
I would guess a carbon composition 1r0+-10% 1W

[janneman]

Originally Posted by SA-12

if I was to guess it is a 6.8 ohm 1 or 2 watt carbon composition (or film) resistor 5% and it looks like it is cracked so I bet it is open.[snip].

Correct. I have exactly the same one in my hands right now.

jd