Last one I saw went for over 550.
Ok quick question. Bar actually getting something Royal Ohm shipped direct from Thailand from Tayda, does anyone know any decent vendors of 1% 1/4W metal film resistors in the UK? I need a dev pack ideally AND the ability to buy the same resistors again if I run out.
The usual Royal Ohm ones I buy are the same as CPC/Farnell's Multicomp Pro line. They do a dev kit for £61 but it doesn't specify enough info to work out that they are the same resistors or hair legged Chinese shite ![Angry >:(](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xangry.gif.pagespeed.ic.0w4zhwjvDw.png)
Forgive the stupid newbie question but....what do you / people mean by "shite" resistor, what's wrong with them in a concrete manner, and how can you be sure other brands are not shite ?
Are the crap ones out of tolerance resistance wise or otherwise, like tempco or actual power handling capabilities ? Too much noise ? Is that measured by you from experience or do you just go by the specs announced by the datasheet ? Or are they just mechanically unreliable, like I don't know, the bond between the body and the terminals, develop internal micro-cracks, that you can't see of course but cause increased noise and instabilities in ohms reading or current handling and all sorts of random unwanted behaviour ? I don't know.... but I wanna know
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... because I too will need to order a "dev kit" as you say. Had a quick look at Farnell, main problem is that most of their kits are too limited, they usually do 10R to 1M, but I would like 1R to 10M, two more decades. Also they usually sell 100 of each, or 50.. I don't need that much for the little I do, would much prefer for the same price, have 30 or 50 of the 10x ones, and only 10 or 20 of the other values, but in exchange have two more decades, as well as full E24 not E12.. but looks like my demands do not fit what's on the market
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Ordering them one by one to make my own kit would take several years, clicking on hundreds of individual values... and the total price would probably be exorbitant anyway.
If my questions, electronics related aren't they, attract even half of the traffic that EV's do, I will be over the moon...