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Re: Dec VT100 - for parts - someone let the smoke out -

Toomas Losin (tlo@paralynx.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 11:08:12 -0700

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Kevin Chu writes:

> Tom Klok wrote:
>
> > VT100. But if it's just a 100 ohm 1/2W resistor, that should be
> > pretty easy to source.
>
> I was going to say this originally, but I don't know enough about the
> VT100.... If it's just the resistor that's fried, and all the other
> components are okay, then it's quite easy to find a 100 ohm 1/2 W
> resistor. But maybe you should put one with a higher power rating in
> if the 1/2 W fried.

Is this a sacrificial resistor? It may be designed to fail before
something more expensive does.

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Toomas Losin                            ParaLynx Internet
tlo@paralynx.com                        New Westminster, BC

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