djmiyta
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How’d you know? I knew holding the iron properly to achieve optimum tone probably gave a little too much of my secrets away. But you know ya gotta pay it forward
And now back to winning that Fig contest.
Those of you who use Dale resistors…
- Thread starter Bricksnbeatles
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And now back to winning that Fig contest.
fig
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I’m sitting on a signature Eric Johnson potato peeler with COA. I’m waiting for the price to climb a wee higher before unloading on eBay.
andare
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No kink shaming
djmiyta
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I use Dales but only the 5-10W ones. I use them in amps for power tube cathode resistors or the 5W grid stoppers on EL34s. And I use them because they look so damn cool! The square Xicon resistors look so cheap, like concrete bricks. The Dale wire-wound resistors look evil and stealth. I saw them in a Badcat amp once and had to find where I could get some for my amps!
Well it's not so much of an issue in pedals where the currents tend to be miniscule but in amps the wattage rating is important. A friend brought around a commercially available 5E3 style amp for me to look at and the builder had used 1/4W resistors for the dropping resistors along the B+. Well he used 1/4W everywhere except between the filter caps. This is not a good idea!
So yeah, resistance is resistance until it isn't any more!
So yeah, resistance is resistance until it isn't any more!
giovanni
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Yeah components have recommended operating conditions that they need in order to operate as expected. So yeah, a resistor is a resistor within the operating conditions… We all assume that components are “ideal”, but they never are. There are non linearities hiding everywhere and those may affect how a circuit works. Probably not on pedals though (low voltages and low currents).
Alan W
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Most prices drop a good bit at 10 parts. Still, a big bump in price from ~1cent. They are very conservatively rated—i just sorted through several hundred RN55 and most were tighter than .2% tolerance. I haven’t tested for noise, but my sense is that they are similarly well under the spec ppm. Overkill for pedals, but I’ve never let that stop me. If I can fit them in, I’ll use styrene caps for pf values too…
Wait until you run into projects that involve trimmed foil resistors. My DAC has several Vishay and Caddock foils in it that cost between $18 and $30 each. Unfortunately, the circuit sounds better with them…
Wait until you run into projects that involve trimmed foil resistors. My DAC has several Vishay and Caddock foils in it that cost between $18 and $30 each. Unfortunately, the circuit sounds better with them…
Bricksnbeatles
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I was going by digikey pricing— 100 for over $70? And that’s the best bulk deal they have that isn’t in the 100s of dollars for a single value— I typically get a full roll of 1000 1% 1/4w resistors for like $12 when I’m buying the values that get used up most. Other sites seem to be similarly expensive.
Seems some users have good local sources of these resistors though— at the 5¢/ea like what Betty mentioned, I’d be down for a good few. It’s the 70¢/ea even in bulk that I can’t go for lol
Feral Feline
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Feral Feline
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Couldn't resi... help it, found this one for Barry...
I want a T-shirt with the schematic resistance is futile on the front, and then the above on the back.
I tell you what, though, resistance IS bloody futile if you put a jumper around that resistor, or resister...
A resister is someone who resists, a resistor is an electrical component, like a transistor....
I want a T-shirt with the schematic resistance is futile on the front, and then the above on the back.
I tell you what, though, resistance IS bloody futile if you put a jumper around that resistor, or resister...
A resister is someone who resists, a resistor is an electrical component, like a transistor....
Bricksnbeatles
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Exactly. Are they in any way necessary? No. Do I want to build a Parasit C19 with a bunch of nice brown-red resistors to make the PCB look all pretty? yes.
fig
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Hell yeah!
bowanderror
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Used to love this place when I lived in MPLS! Definitely some work to dig through their stock, but they seem to have an endless supply of cool stuff.This place. Its too funny and frankly amazing of a store. Apparently they list about 1% of their stock for online orders.
Feral Feline
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Well when you have a defunct RD lab from the 80s-90s and there are THOUSANDS (hundreds and hundreds of boxes of 100s) in cabinets all over gathering dust...... sometimes you dont get all the values, but there are a lot of em.
seems a shame that they wind up in a landfill somewhere. I've seen hundreds of thousands $$ of surplus eqpipment just tossed into dumpsters over the years....
seems a shame that they wind up in a landfill somewhere. I've seen hundreds of thousands $$ of surplus eqpipment just tossed into dumpsters over the years....