Ed Price wrote:


I don't know what you mean by the "life" of a carbon comp resistor. My
experience is that they last forever, until you kill them somehow.
Drift, under low power, hasn't been a problem for me. I have never seen
40% drifts, except for very abused parts, and if you are using the
2-watt carbon comps, you can hear or smell when you are abusing them.

You apparently don't play with many old 30s-40s sets. Finding half the
high-value resistors only 200% out of whack would be a good day.

-BM