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>Hello all...have an old alpha 374 the resister across the step down
>relay, a 10 ohm 13 watt wire would burned up....question...can I replace
>this with a 10 ohm 20 watt, what I have available or should I replace it
>with an exact same wattage??? thanks all Tim WB8OWX
>
I have seen ww resistors of the same physical size rated from 10w to 13w.
A 10w, 10-ohm resistor should probably work ok in this application.
However, there is a chance that the resistor was not defective in the
first place, and there is a circuit fault which caused the failure.
good luck, Tim.
- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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