heros,
or that the length of a wire has nothing to do with resistence
- mark
But I do find it surprising that one who likes to get things stated
correctly does not want a wire to be called a resistor!!
Since these quotes are all mixed up and shortened I don't know who said what
and for certain what he said. Here's my parting shot on the fuze, resistor,
etc. topic.
I was wrong when I originally said that a fuze has no resistance, and of
course the resistance is required for it to fuze, i.e. blow, when it's rated
current passes through it. That something has resistance doesn't make it a
resistor. If it did we'd have to call everything that is not an insulator a
resistors, transformers, wires, fuzes, etc. A resistor is not simply a device
that has resistance but one in which resistance is utilized as part of the
circuit design, to achieve a voltage drop when connected in series, to bypass
current in a device when in parallel, i.e. shunt like the old D'Arsonval
(SP?) analog meters when used to measure current. Someone earlier said that
CMOS devices actually no longer use Metal, I don't know whether that is so,
but we don't stop calling them CMOS, which may be why I didn't know that
metal is no longer used in their manufacture.
Anyway, that's my swan song on the issue.
Jim
