Eric wrote:

> It would be stretching things for me to say "involved with", but my
> story about obtaining a box of them marked black-black-black-silver
> was true.  I still have the box, buried somewhere in my storage
> locker.
[..]
> I would have been really happy if they had met spec; it's not every
> day that someone gives me a box of room-temperature superconductors.

Don't the manufacturers get silly with the banding and say something
like "For R < 100Ohm, gold=5% or +-0.1Ohm, whichever is the larger"?

If so, could you test your batch thoroughly and please send me the ones
that are at the negative end of the tolerance range?

Thanks  ;-)


Stuart.
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