HP HP-Bench-Briefs-1981-01-02 free download

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SERVICE INFORMATION FROM HEWLETT-PACKARD JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1981 Basic Resistor Technology - 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