Mbira
Well-known member
OK,
Time for my weekly subjective question...
I work at a place where I can get all the carbon film resistors I need-I can go through as many as I need to get matched pairs, etc. It is free. These are the newer ones that look like the metal film ones (I thought they were metal film for a long time-till I saw the bags they came in.)
People say that the carbon ones add noise to a circuit. To buy metal films, They end up costing about $1.20 for ten 1% 1/2 watt resistors (Mouser). If I'm lucky, I can get two or three pairs of matched resistors from those 10.
Subjective question:
As a poor college student-still concerned with achieving good quality components-should I be buying resistors, or using the free ones?
Joel
Time for my weekly subjective question...
I work at a place where I can get all the carbon film resistors I need-I can go through as many as I need to get matched pairs, etc. It is free. These are the newer ones that look like the metal film ones (I thought they were metal film for a long time-till I saw the bags they came in.)
People say that the carbon ones add noise to a circuit. To buy metal films, They end up costing about $1.20 for ten 1% 1/2 watt resistors (Mouser). If I'm lucky, I can get two or three pairs of matched resistors from those 10.
Subjective question:
As a poor college student-still concerned with achieving good quality components-should I be buying resistors, or using the free ones?
Joel