DIP packaged resistors???

[Tony Clark]

> In building my analog circuits, I often have 1 or 2 heavily used resistor
> values (like 100K) and it occurs to me that I could save board real estate
> if I used a DIP packaged isolated resistor network in place of my 8
> discrete 100K resistors.  The Mouser catalog offers these as thick film
> resistor networks with 2% tolerance and TC of 100 ppm in a DIP package.  
> 
> Aside from these obvious specs, can anybody offer any reasons why this
> might be a bad idea????

   They aren't a bad idea at all!  The only bad thing about them tends to 
be that the pins are all in a straight line and that isn't necessarily 
the best of configurations in tight designs.
   If you are fairly intelligent, you can easily make their 
configurations work for you.  I was using them in my most recent design 
until I decided to go SMT.

   Tony

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Tony Clark -- clark at andrews.edu 
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