On 10/8/05, John Nall <jwnall@gmail.com> wrote:

snap

> one with a ohmmeter.  This is a fairly expensive instrument, and so far
> as I know it is very accurate.

snap again

> So here is the interesting part -- every single resister, with no
> exceptions, came in below the nominal value.  This is not any kind of
> problem, of course, since they were all within tolerance.  But one would
> think (wouldn't one?) that some would be over, some would be under, and
> once in a great while one would be right on the money.


Probably because is OT, you forgot the most important things:

1. which is the tolerance class of the resistors as the seller said ?
2. which is the precision of your "fairly expensive" ohmeter ?

Then will find the truth easily. There is no passive componente
without plus or minus error, just wrong measuring methodes or bad
measuring tools.

But if you want to say that Olin is great, I'm agree.
:)

cheers,
Vasile

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