Quoting Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl>:

>> For your situation and anyone else who has had power resistors
>> fail, were they within specified max operating temp (but higher than
>> rated wattage)?  Or did the temps go over the specified max operating
>
> I think the problem will be that the temperature will *locally* go over
> the maximum temperature.

Yes.  I admittedly haven't done the math on this, but cannot imagine =20
that difference could be 100 deg C.  The data/numbers others have =20
posted seem to now tell me that my "gut feel" is wrong though.

Cheers,
-Neil.


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