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Temperature Coefficient of Resistance in Foil Resistors
Temperature Coefficient of Resistance refers to how the resistance value varies due to changes in temperature. One of a foil resistor’s most important properties is Low Temperature Coefficient of Resistance, or TCR. This is especially true for applications like...
Pulse Applications and Wirewound Resistors
Choosing a resistor for pulse applications can be tricky business. What is the magnitude of the pulse? How long does it last? How often does it repeat? What is an acceptable resistance range? And then there are the multiple resistor technologies to consider. A typical...
Shunts ; Measuring current taken to a higher level
Precision shunts are very precise resistors inserted into a circuit in order to measure the current flowing through that circuit. The shunt does this by providing a very small voltage drop across its resistance proportional to the current flowing through the shunt. ...
New Product: Precision DC Current Shunts
DC Current Shunts expansion. Riedon has expanded its line of DC Current Shunts to include current ratings up to 10,000 amps. The RS series of off-the-shelf, base-mounted and bus-bar shunts now offers current ratings from 5 A to 10,000 amps and a number of mounting...
TO resistor -Thermal resistance and beyond
Heat dissipation is a key factor in the design of a power system; in a world where the trend is for more power in a smaller space, are TO-style packages still the best solution? TO packages were originally intended for discrete transistors, in fact TO stands for...
Resistor orientation and the thermal EMF effect
Maintaining a constant temperature around precision resistors is integral to maintaining the stability of a circuit. Even small fluctuations in the temperature of a resistor can cause errors in a circuit due to noise. The relationship between temperature and...
Measuring Tiny Resistances Accurately when using resistors
Digital multi-meter When measuring the resistance of something is a great deal more complicated if that resistance is very small. With bigger resistances, measurements can be as simple as connecting two leads between a digital multi-meter (DMM) and the device under...
Why is a Wirewound Resistor not a Wirewound Inductor?
We can make a wirewound resistor by winding resistive wire into a coil around an insulating core. We can also make an inductor by using a more conductive wire and winding it around a ferrite core. Both are essentially a coil of wire around a core, so what makes...
Precision Resistors for the Gigaohm-Range
High Value Resistors with specified properties at small sizes To analyze very low electronic signals, resistors with extremely high values are required. Based on a long tradition of working in this niche market, SRT Resistor Technology GmbH in Cadolzburg/Germany has...
Non-magnetic Chip Resistors and Chip Capacitors
Chip Resistors for High Temperature Applications The special technological aspects of these components produced by Riedon, Inc. are the materials of the contact areas, which contains no Nickel, so they are nonmagnetic. The contact areas are made by noble metal alloys...