Re: EOL's

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to run into that all the time with DSC 1550's

"Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is not terribly unusual to find an EOL on a fireloop that has drifted
far
> enough out of specs so as to cause a loop trouble or a short.
>
> "Al Colombo" <securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> I know what you think you mean.  I also know you're completely
> >> wrong about tolerance.  I suggest you study the matter a while.
> >> Then come back and correct yourself.
> >
> > I don't mean to belittle you as you are obviously trying to do to me,
> > but you really show how little practical field or bench repair
> > experience you have when you say that high temperatures, combined with
> > high humidity cannot affect resistance in a carbon resistor.
> >
> > Although it may not be common for a field resistor to change value
> > based on high ambient heat and high levels of humidity, it can and does
> > happen in the real world.  To tell anyone that this is not so is doing
> > them a disservice.  Also, perhaps this man's resistor suffered an
> > induced high current due to a nearby lighting strike, in which case the
> > excessive heat caused by the high current could have super heated the
> > carbon, causing its properties to change.
> >
> > What I've told him I stand behind from both my electronic training and
> > my experience in the field, which includes 4 years of schooling, 18
> > years of field experience, and more than 15 years of work in trade
> > journalism working with the men and women who work in the field in
> > security.  I also hold a technican's class amateur radio license,
> > KC80CV.
> >
> > I stand behind my statement 100% unless someone else who has some real
> > engineering knowledge can step up and refer me to an on-line source of
> > information that says, as you have, that temperature and humidity,
> > combined with time, cannot change the value of a carbon resistor.
> > That's my final word until that day comes.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> >
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