ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:01:58 -0600, "Danny Pease" <dpease@adams.net>
wrote:
>Shorted is relative. If you can measure low enough, there is no such thing
>as a short. A piece of wire is usually considered a short, but we all know
>it has some values of resistance. A few ohms compared to a several hundred
>thousand or even millions, is a short.
REPLY:
Correct, in the theoretical sense.
In the practical sense, anyone who has been troubleshooting long
knows the difference between a shorted part and one that is leaky, and
that is the sense in which I was speaking.
73, Bill W6WRT
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