Selecting from 1% resistors

May 15, 2015 2 Replies

I want a 500k resistor 0.1%. It's a prototype so metal film through hole resistors. I got out the bin of 1 Meg 1% er's figuring I could find a pair. They were all high, 1.005 Meg was the lowest and 1.015 the highest, with most above 1.01. (And yes my meter works, I've got 1M 0.1% in surface mount and the first one read



1.0004 Meg)

I got a 499k and put 1k in series, works fine... just disappointed there's not a "better" spread in the 1 Megs.



George H.


must of been one of those Ebay bargain buys :)

Jamie

the closer to spec ones are probably sold as

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