by Riedon | Mar 10, 2017 | Resistors
Thin Film Resistors Thin film resistors are built on a ceramic base, with the resistive layer sputtered on top using vacuum deposition to create a chip resistor. The material used is commonly an alloy of nickel and chrome called Nichrome. The thickness of the film...
by Riedon | Mar 10, 2017 | Caddock, Resistors, Wirewound resistors
Thick Film Resistors Thick film resistors have many carbon resistor characteristics; they can be made small and are very low cost in high quantities. Their resistance tolerance, TCR and stability over time is not as favorable as wirewound or foil types, but they have...
by Riedon | Feb 6, 2017 | Caddock, Resistors
Resistors are often designated as precision or power. Precision resistors are designed for applications where tight resistance tolerance and stability are primary considerations, and they generally have restricted operating temperature limits and power dissipation...
by Riedon | Feb 2, 2017 | Custom Resistors, Resistors
Custom Resistors For Your Next Project Riedon can modify existing power resistor designs to fit many special applications. For example, it is relatively easy to imbed one of our standard wirewound power resistors into a custom case. Our custom capability is somewhat...
by Riedon | Feb 1, 2017 | Caddock, Digikey, Resistors, vishay, Wirewound resistors
Bleed Resistors – Maintaining a Charge Bleed resistors are placed in parallel with a power supply’s load and are used to discharge the smoothing capacitors in linear AC-DC converters and also the reservoir capacitors utilized by DC-DC converters. These...
by Riedon | Jan 24, 2017 | Resistors
High Voltage Dividers High voltage dividers are used to scale down a high voltage for any number of reasons including: feedback for power regulation, or simplified monitoring. Potentiometric ratios as high as 1000:1 or even higher are not uncommon. Voltage divider...
