[Hallicrafters] the resister bandit

[John Hensley]

All to say it looks like a salesman's maneuver to double his prices without having to do anything.  Just rename the 1/4 watt to be a 1/2 watt and charge the higher price.  What a bandit to use the engineering safey zone of a component as the components new value.Message: 4Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:36:40 -0700From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>Subject: [Hallicrafters] New resistor sizesTo: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>,<HallicraftersRadios at yahoogroups.com>Cc: Orlan <orlan at everestkc.net>, Electric Radio Magazine<1editor2 at indra.com>,	"ORLIN D. JENKINS" <k0oj at msn.com>, LarryWoodworth <larryw0hxs at yahoo.com>Message-ID: <002f01c970e6$1e29ba90$6402a8c0 at w0eaj>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Recently, I ordered some replacement resistors from Mouser, and noticed that the 1w devices were the size of what HAD been 1/4w, and 2w sizes were the same size of what HAD BEEN the 1/2w. In correspondence with the Vischay rep, this is what came out of their TechSupp folks.Carbon Composition Resistors (which are going obsolete) did not have a ceramic core and were not as efficient at dissipating heat into the leads. By using metal film on a ceramic core more power can be applied to a smaller part. By the same token the large resistive area of the carbon composition resistor allowed for improved pulse voltage handling characteristics than the ceramic core technology.----------- 
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