On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:45:43 -0800, Roy Lewallen
wrote:

It's not at all my intent to make up more work for you to do. What I was
mostly interested in was just how much the spiral construction of the
resistor adds to its inductance -- is it or isn't it significant, or is
the inductance mostly due to the component size and the leads? And it
still seems to me that you could just measure a wrapped or painted
resistor in the same fixture as you did the intact resistor. The
difference in measured inductances should be the contribution of the
spiral element.

Has anyone carried out any tests to compare conventional spiral
elements with the 'doubling-back spiral' types that claim to be
"non-inductive"? I just wonder if that doubling-back of the resistive
element to 'eliminate' inductance is as effective as it's made out to
be.
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.