I have an application which will be dissipating a significant amount of=20
power through a resistor - for a very short period.  Say a dozen or so=20
microseconds.

Assuming I don't exceed the current specification, how long of a period=20
can I average the power dissipation over?  Is there a way to calculate=20
this?  I realize that it will probably depend on the amount of=20
'overpowering' I'm doing...

Mainly I want to be sure I'm not going to cook a resistor by dissipating=20
quite a bit of power through it for 20-30us - and have no idea where=20
even to start to validate this from a mathematical/engineering standpoint.

-forrest

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