At 01:31 PM 5/18/01 -0500, Lawrence Lile wrote:
>I made a 0.025 ohm resistor in the shop over lunch hour.  It ended up being
>14" of #24AWG tinned solid copper wire at 250C.  I measured it with a
>recently calibrated $3000 HP 4 wire ohmmeter just to make sure it was what I
>needed. For anyone else trying to build a sense resistor, if you don't have
>a $3000 ohmmeter handy, this is a good recipe.  Wound around a 1/4" dowel,
>it ends up about 1" long.

You did wind it non-inductively, right?


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