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Re: Beginner's error

4/17/2000 5:45 PM
Gil Ayan
Re: Beginner's error
quote:
"Hi,  
 
I just got to share this.  
I've made a couple of amps now and some of them  
have been lacking power and distorted in a bad  
way.  
I had installed 1 ohms resitors to measure the  
voltage/current at the cathodes, the problem was  
that they weren't 1 ohm.  
One pair read 2 ohms each and the other read 1,5 ohms  
Funny  
 
Nils"
 
 
I don't think so. Like someone else already pointed out, 1 ohm, 2, 10? No difference.  
 
What I think is happening here: what is the RANGE of the meter you're using to measure the resistor values? I believe 1 ohm is prety much at the low end of the scale for most $20 meters, and you couldn't expect much accuracy there. Also... did you have fresh batteries in the meter? I kid you not, if your batteries are not fully charged, you can get funky results when reading low value resistors.

 
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Stephen Conner q{I don't think so. Like someone e... -- 4/17/2000 9:20 PM