[sdiy] What's it take to pop a sandbar resistor?

[Ken Stone]

just corrosion. probably a manufacturing problem. Yes, I've had old power
resistors fall off their leads.

Ken


>Sitting in my desk drawer is a momento of when my wife & I were first 
>dating.
>Back then, her stereo had a problem... the speakers sounded bad.  
>Opening the speakers, I found that each one had a 9.4 ohm 10 watt 
>crossover(?) resistor.   On each one, the leads had completely separated 
>from the resistor body, leaving little green dimples.  One trip to Radio 
>Shack & a little soldering later, speakers sounded *much* better.
>
>My question is, what happened to the resistors that would cause the 
>leads to fall off like that?
>Too much current to the speakers?  I don't think it was humidity, or 
>mice nibbling....
>
>-- 
>m/n/m/l
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>http://mnml.soulcatcher.net
>
>
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