[Premium-Rx] wj 205 / A10R14: how to estimate the nominal value of a burned carbon resistor

Борис Никитин ua3mcj at mail.ru
Sat Jul 12 05:18:37 EDT 2014


 Hello Peter,

For the information: mil-spec resistors also use five color ring that is relative percent change in value per 1000 hours of operation. Yellow is 0.001 percent. It's the best.
But in real life things not so good, in my REGCO RG-5500  almost all resistors carbon composition military spec. with yellow color bands, but all of them changed their value, often 47k 
became 56k or so for example... R14 in your case looks like must be 33 ohms-nearest standard value.. colour band's burned, but carbon composition  material inside not.

i already replaced many of them across the receiver with metal-film resistors correct value...Planned to do so in some other PCB, but circuits diagrams not available in the moment to make inspection a decision...Probably will do without diagrams-use the digital multimetr to check them if move away to hight-replace them...Not the best way, but possible to do the job...

All the best,
Boris




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