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Posted by zstripe on Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:59 PM

GUY,

Now you can go around,measuring stuff!!!!Laugh Everyone has a lot of stuffff.

Cheers,

Frank

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Posted by rrinker on Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:17 PM

 Hopefully you did not overpay and get a super fancy ones, the $5 or less ones from harbor Freight are perfectly adequate for model railroad work.

                 --Randy

 


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Posted by woodone on Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:28 PM

The Ohm meter needed to be in your tool box before your started doing electrical work.

So it is not a waste of $$. I am sure that you will find many uses for it in the future.

Very handy too to have with working with electrical projects. 

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Sunday, September 15, 2013 11:54 AM

I goofed again.  It is BROWN not red. Embarrassed

So :  brown, black, black, brown, brown is 1k ohms.

It costed me the price of an Ohm Meter to learn. Sad

Thank you everyone for the help.

Guy

Modeling CNR in the 50's

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Posted by gondola1988 on Sunday, September 15, 2013 7:51 AM
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Posted by zstripe on Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:25 AM

Mark,

Been a long time,,since I worked on TV's...Bow

Cheers,

Frank

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Posted by Mark R. on Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:11 AM

A fixed temperature co-efficient is only found on six band resistors ....

Mark.

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Posted by zstripe on Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:47 AM

GUY,

Also from the shape,it could be a Metal Film Resistor,,used in TV's a lot..With a fixed Temp. Coefficient..

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Frank

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Posted by Mark R. on Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:30 AM

Looks to be a 20,000 ohm resistor to me with a tolerance of 2% - verify by testing with your ohmeter ....

Mark.

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Posted by zstripe on Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:29 AM

GUY,

Looks to me like a Carbon Film Resistor,,trying to locate one now,,,,,,Do you have a OHM,meter to measure it??

Cheers,

Frank

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What is this?
Posted by Guy Papillon on Saturday, September 14, 2013 9:46 AM

Someone gave me some resistors he pretends to be 1k ohms.  I went to Electronicsteacher.com to learn how to read the code but I can't read this one as there is no silver or gold end.

Is this a resistor at all?

if so, what is the value?

Guy

Modeling CNR in the 50's

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