How do I get rid of this mess of resistors

For pull-down and pull-up resistors, you might look at single-in-line resistors arrays, which have one common pin (to be returned to 0V or

+3.3V or +5V or whatever), and anything from four to nine reisistors.

Farnell certainly stock a fair range of such parts. The pins are are in

2.54mm (0.1") centres, so they'd plug straight into your protoboard.

----------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I need all these resistors. They are voltage dividers, pullup and pulldown resistors and some also are used for setting parameters like frequency (IIRC).

On the one hand, I need them.

On the other hand, they are an unholy mess, looking bad, forming loops, etc etc.

I pulled these resistors from a 1969 piece of equipment.

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Not sure what you're asking. It's not as though you're carrying power into and out of the comparator. Surface mount on a custom PCB would sure clean things up nicely. Or a few dimes' worth of 1/8 W carbon film stuffed neatly into the protoboard grid (as it was meant to be used) would go a long ways toward looking sane. I think Radio Shack still sells resistor assortments, a few each of several commonly used values.

Farnell is in the UK. Try

You'll have more versatility with a kit of discrete resistors, as

You might score a resistor selection with little drawers and everything on ebay. I have an Ohmite "Little Devil" collection with thousands of resistors in it from 3.3 ohms to 22 megohms, got the lot for $10 at an auction. I restock it with lots of 20 of each value when often-used values get low. My next order to Digi-Key will include a kit of surfacemount resistors. Ya can't play with electronics without resistors!

Thanks. I will try to get some assortment of tiny resistors and lay them flat. I really like flat lying connections, they are cleaner looking and probably invite less interference.

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Bill, do you have their item id or some such?

thanks

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Now pick a value !

Farnell's own search engine is quite good btw.

Graham

Thanks Don. I bought some sensible kit from ebay.

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Replace them with SIP resistor arrays.

I have many thousands of these in stock.

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I see no mess???

BTW, go down to RadioShank and buy a 1/2W resistor assortment. Ya...1/4W resistors are too wimpy for anything over about 3V. I stick with 1/2W. Not to mention my interest in tube amps, but nevermind that...

Tim

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Thanks... I bought some assortment on ebay...

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