On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:22:06 -0000, Alexander JJ Rice
<a.j.j.rice@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

  Vishay rate their 805 SMT thick film devices for an overload of
> 1A
> for 5 seconds. That is 5 Joules.

woops, silly me. E=I^2 * RT and it is 0.5 seconds, not 5 seconds so :

1^2 * 3.9 * 0.5 =  1.8J

Alex R

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