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Having trouble getting power to heated motorcycle grips
It appears you used the red crimp inline connectors to attach the SAE conn. to the wiring. Those inline connectors are notorious for bad connections and poor crimps. A poor crimp can cause a resistive connection and drop the voltage. I never trusted them after fighting a nightmare in a used...- FrankB
- Post #8
- Forum: General Electronics Discussion
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Resistors, Capacitors, Zener diodes... Why the funny values?
A bit of history here on odd resistor values like "400 ohms" etc: Back in the Dawn of Time when radios were first being produced, some factories used Sodium vapor lighting. Certain color identifiers (or Dots) back then were unreadable due to the color of the lighting. So companies like...- FrankB
- Post #21
- Forum: Resource Discussion
