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Re: resistors in series

2009-10-05 by Loscha

Your typical domestic Multimeter really isn't optimized to measure anything
beyond about 10M in my experience.

As long as your individual amounts add up, you're in the clear.

/Edward

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Guy <guy@...> wrote:

>
>
> I need a 22M resistor, so I solder two 10M's + one 2M in series.
> However, when I measure the end terminals, I end up with something like 32M
> ?
> When I measure in the middle *between* the two 10Ms (the 2M comes last), I
> get about 20M.
>
> Once again, I am puzzled by this illogical behaviour.
>
> _g
>
>
>



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