Resistor: A passive chunk of material that resists the flow of electrical current. A terminal is connected to each end you’re done. What could be simpler? It turns out it’s not so simple at all.

In all kinds of engineering, we build on abstractions in a kind of inverted pyramid. Lots of people can, for example, design a system using ready-made building blocks on printed circuit boards. Fewer ...

The VRH320 Variable Wire Wound Resistor available from ARCOL Resistors has a wide range of applications for voltage and current adjustment including industrial machinery RPM adjustment, instruments, ...

Platinum wire-wound detectors comprise a pure platinum wire wound into a miniature spiral and located within axial holes in a high purity alumina rod. The freedom of movement of the platinum wire ...

If you do, Vishay has turned that into reality with a series of pick-and-place-friendly cemented wire-wounds. They are actually the company’s existing 3W AC03-CS series of fuseable resistors, with the ...

New York, Feb. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new research report on the “Wirewound Variable Resistors Market” titled has recently published by Reports Insights, the market was worth USD 1.3 Billion ...

Additions to the RWT series vertical-mount, thermally-fused wire-wound resistors include 2W and 7W elements to accommodate a broader range of commercial, consumer, and industrial applications.

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced an AEC-Q200 qualified charging resistor “that is the industry’s first such device to feature hybrid wire-wound technology in a standard package size”, it said.

Editor’s note: The following is a ‘white’ paper that Mike Chesselet and Edwin G. Pettis wrote on January 15, 2000 about the history of resistors. Since it was written, there have been some advances in ...