by Riedon | May 8, 2017 | power resistors, Precision Resistors, Resistors
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...
by Riedon | May 1, 2017 | power resistors, Resistors
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...
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 | May 10, 2016 | Caddock, Resistors, vishay
Bleeder Resistor Bleeder Resistors are used as a safety feature to discharge capacitors to safe voltage levels after power is removed. A bleed resistor may be either connected permanently for cost effectiveness and high reliability or switched across a capacitor for...
