Resistor Value Up or Down

[Chuck D. Bones]

Neither of those resistors are critical. I tend to avoid jumping in on a troubleshooting thread if parts are standing up, but there are plenty of other folks who aren't so finicky.

 

[MichaelW]

Uhm……I’ve done this a couple times. I don’t know what it or isn’t critical.

I’ve also gone through and tested a pack of “the next closest value” to find one out of spec to match.

I just pulled all the components for 2 Pete Cornish builds I’m planning on working in this week. Lots of really obnoxious resistor values in his builds.

 

[giovanni]

Chuck can correct me here, but given that transistors are inherently non linear devices and so are capacitors (and resistors too?), a slight difference in resistor value won’t make a huge difference compared to all the other non linearities in a circuit. There are techniques to increase linearity (used for analog mixers etc) but they don’t usually rely on very exact resistor values.