At 10:42 PM 2/28/2005, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>>>except that the BIG BOOK is now a proprietary database and
>>>  you are now issued a password to get to it.
>
>>But sometimes, a resistor is just a resistor.  :)
>
>Perhaps. I wonder how many different varieties of "10k ohm resistor"
>are in the book, and how many are actually needed.

Well, if I'm doing a schematic for production, that's one thing, and I want 
exact parts unless I say otherwise.
If I'm doing a prototype, or just a schematic to illustrate or document 
something, then a resistor is just a resistor.

As I said, most of my designs start out as "just a schematic" to get the 
shape of the circuit right.
I don't want to worry about 1%, 5% yaego or Panasonic, I just want a 
resistor there. I may not even know the value closer than an order of 
magnitude, so it just slows me down to have to go specify an exact part.

Sort of the schematic version of "Measure with a micrometer, Cut with a 
hacksaw".




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