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SERVICE INFORMATION FROM HEWLETT-PACKARD
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1981
Basic Resistor Technology
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Resistors seem simple and common
enough - they have been funda-
mental components in electronic cir-
cuitry from the early days of radio.
But a r e they really simple? Not
when you consider that a precision
potentiometer is actually a precise
instrument-grade sensor. Or that re-
sistor networks a r e now laser
trimmed for accuracy. And t h a t
leadless resistors, developed i n
Japan approximately three years
ago, are beginning to appear in U S .
products.
A Closer Look at the
Products
Carbon Comps first introduced more than 40 years and increase rapidly at tempera-
ago. These resistors are still widely tures much above 60