Component identification

[TheBrick]

Help me identify this component please.

Writing says
R68-J5w-A-1

See attachment for pic.

Google is no help. I thought is was a resister at first but if it is it only come up as 0.8 ohm.


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[c4757p]

Pretty sure it's a resistor, though I can't make heads or tails of that picture. Take pictures with more light!! That's why it's grainy as hell. But R68 most likely means 0.68 ohm (a standard value), and if you didn't subtract the resistance of the test leads, it could easily measure 0.8. I would be tempted to guess J5w is "5 watt", but it doesn't look big enough, so perhaps that's a model number and the "-1" at the end is "1 watt".

[mariush]

It's a 0.68 ohm , 5 watt resistor, most likely wirewound type.

The convention is that the R is like a decimal point ... aka 2R2 is a 2.2 ohm , so R68 is actually 0.68 ohm.