What is a resistor ?

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Hello DIYers, the question is open, which is the best , which material, power handling, mounting issues, the wires and plating, the internal connecting, the passivation process, skeletton vs.molded, ceramic vs enameled ? 😕 everything have influence 😉 up to you now 🙂
 
Cal, perhaps you missed some of Bill Cosby's earlier (and best in my opinion) standup routines - from the first half a dozen comedy albums (63 - 69).

Definitely something you could share with your parents - unlike the druggy silliness of Cheech & Chong, or the singularly brilliant vulgarity of George Carlin.
 
What's the best bolt?

According to Ben Franklin the best bolt is one collected via wet kite string at an altitude of about 350 feet. He wrote that it is important that the string be three-strand cotton wrapped right handed as any other construction will smear the transients in the bolt resulting in a much less impressive St. Elmo's Fire display on the key tied in the string. Of course the key needs to be brass...not the modern alloy stuff but authentic 18th century brass as the modern stuff has grain boundaries that can distort the rise time of the pulse from the bolt. Oh and don't get me started on the kite details, I'll need a separate thread to go into those in depth.😉
 
Cal, perhaps you missed some of Bill Cosby's earlier
I was brought up in that era of comedy. It seemed sad to see them resort to the foul mouth stuff to get attention later on.
Bob Newhart
Tim Conway
Morey Amsterdam
Mel Blanc
Smuthers Brothers
Wayne and Schuster
Red Skelton
Victor Borge
Kip Addota
Many more but by golly this is a thread about resistors, how selfish of me.
 
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