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resistor wattage?

OldRestorer
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04-30-2014, 10:35 PM

I got a big load of resistors from someone but the issue is they were all jumbled together with no way to tell the wattage. took me 3 hours to separate them. Is there anything that tells you that a resistor is 1/2 watt or 1 watt etc?

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resistor wattage? - by OldRestorer - 04-30-2014, 10:35 PM

RE: resistor wattage? - by skyscraper - 04-30-2014, 10:50 PM

RE: resistor wattage? - by codefox1 - 04-30-2014, 11:06 PM

RE: resistor wattage? - by tab10672 - 04-30-2014, 11:41 PM

RE: resistor wattage? - by Chuck Schwark - 05-01-2014, 09:20 AM

RE: resistor wattage? - by OldRestorer - 05-01-2014, 10:34 AM

RE: resistor wattage? - by morzh - 05-01-2014, 11:24 AM

RE: resistor wattage? - by tab10672 - 05-01-2014, 02:31 PM

RE: resistor wattage? - by morzh - 05-01-2014, 03:17 PM

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