Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 04:30:32 PST From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Homebrew-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Homebrew@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #21 To: Ham-Homebrew Ham-Homebrew Digest Sat, 5 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: Mystery components? Help? Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Homebrew Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-homebrew". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 20:24:35 -0500 From: pacbell.com!sgiblab!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!altitude!dino.hip.cam.org!user@network.ucsd. Subject: Mystery components? Help? To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu In article , alanb@sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) wrote: > fsrla@aurora.alaska.edu (fsrla@aurora.alaska.edu) wrote: > : The first was a resistor with just a single black stripe > : running down the middle of it.....what is it? > > Black is the color for zero. It could be a zero-ohm resistor. Don't > laugh -- we have them in our labstock here at work. Ours have a > single blace stripe painted around the body. They are used for jumpers. > > AL N1AL Yes, that's right they are used as jumpers. I makes it easier in the manufacturing process to put zero ohm resistors than wire jumpers, I guess. -- """"""""""""""""""""" | Dino Moriello """""""""""""""""""""" | PO BOX 105 Internet: dino@CAM.ORG """"""""""""""""""""" | Radisson,Quebec Compuserve: 76120,1472 Tel.: 514-974-0773 | | CANADA J0Y 2X0 Packet: VE2DM@VE2FKB 819-638-8281 | """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ------------------------------ End of Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #21 ****************************** ******************************