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[Closed] Anyone know about resistors?

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I’ve got an intermittent fault on a door contact on the alarm. Inside are a number of wires and a couple of resistors. Logic says it’s a break in the wire somewhere but I just wanted to know if resistors ever die and if they do, is it a simple dead/alive thing or can they develop intermittent faults?


 
Posted : 19/08/2009 9:48 am
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They don't usually die unless they have been abused. I'd be looking for dry solder joints and breaks in wires before thinking that a resistor had karked it...


 
Posted : 19/08/2009 9:52 am
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cheers, that's what I was thinking, just wanted someone to reinforce that for me.


 
Posted : 19/08/2009 9:57 am