RCA 1861, NTSC and a DEC VR-201

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Sep 30 18:56:58 1999

On Sep 30, 19:13, Tony Duell wrote:
> Subject: Re: RCA 1861, NTSC and a DEC VR-201
> > Blue-Red-Black-Gold = 62 ohms 5% tolerance
> >
> > The last is rather unlikely, since it's not an E12 or even E24
preferred
> > value.
>
> Isn't it? It's certainly a fairly common resistor value, and I thought it
> was the one between 56 and 68 in the E24 series.

Er, I may have meant E6/E12. 62 *is* part of E24. I'm glad someone was
reading it carefully :-) It's not particularly common though; E12 values
are still more commonly used, in my experience.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

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