[Elecraft] Curious 1% Resistors

[Kevin Cozens]

At 08:40 PM 10/09/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>As I'm sitting here stuffing resistors into my K2 (#2862) rf board, you 
>know that big long tape that seems to go on forever, I started to 
>wonder.  Has anybody replaced the 5% resistors with 1% resistors to try to 
>enhance or make their K2 the best one on the block.

The use of 1% resistors in place of 5% wouldn't hurt. For the most part, it 
would mainly serve to increase the cost of the unit slightly. There would 
be little to no benefit in most cases. In the areas of power metering, 
voltage and current measurement, and SWR detection circuits, 1% resistors 
might improve the accuracy of the measurements but that's about it.

Have fun building your K2.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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