DIP packaged resistors???

[Peter Ullrich]

At 14:56 28.04.1997 -0700, John Speth wrote:
>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????

Hi John !

This is not a bad idea ! And you also have the flexibilty to change the
resistor network when you use sockets - good for prototyping. If you use the
resistors as pullup resistor (with one common pin) there is also a
single-in-line version. So a 8 resistor pack has 9 pins.

Oh, another note: There are also smd versions available for the DIYers with
good eyes ! 

Ciao
Peter

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