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50G ohm Retirement Fund
pguerra75:
I was recently cleaning up shop in an electronics warehouse and came across an interesting find. A plastic bottle of approx. 26000 loose 50g Ohm 30% resistors (0805) package. I did some research and the cheapest I can find these things is around $2 at volume. So essentially I found $52000 worth of parts that almost no one will want. One can only laugh. :-DD
Just thought this crowd might enjoy that.
alm:
I wonder what kind of PCB cleaning you would need to keep parallel leakage down for such a small package. Put guard traces around the pads? Mill a narrow slot under the resistor?
Benta:
--- Quote ---A plastic bottle of approx. 26000 loose 50g Ohm 30% resistors (0805) package.
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Rattling around in a bottle, you can be pretty certain that they are not 50 Gohm anymore.
Codebird:
I can't imagine what anyone would even want with such a part.
Benta:
--- Quote from: Codebird on March 14, 2017, 09:41:12 pm ---I can't imagine what anyone would even want with such a part.
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Yes, the customer base is limited, to say the least. Not where I'd put my retirement fund.
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