[ARC5] Resistor Excursions

[Dennis Monticelli]

Thanks for explaining the anomaly.

My 348-N with fluted resistor bodies all drifted high with the biggest
drift in the 1M (also 50% high).  Drift only dropped within the 10%
tolerance at the 1K level.

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 3:19 PM <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I earlier reported that in the BC-348 I am working on I had found a 1 meg
> resistor with a value that had dropped into the low hundred thousands.  But
> after I removed it and replaced it with a modern 1 meg resistor I found
> that when out of the circuit the old resistor had a value of about 1.5
> meg.  So, I still have only experienced old resistors that have increased
> in resistance rather than decreased.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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