I have a block of wood with two 4" pieces of stainless steel wire
(welding rod) set in at an angle about 1.5 inches apart. I clip the
ohmmeter leads to these, hold the body of the resistor in my fingers and
run the leads against the wires. Takes a few seconds and eliminates
problems.
Also, the kits will have a Bill of Materials -- match the components to
the BOM. I use a piece of styrofoam for all the non-semiconductor
components and write on the foam with a marker what the values should
be. If there are supposed to be ten 1.5K resistors, I'm expecting to
see ten of them clustered around the "1.5K" written on the foam. If
there are not, I re-check everything.
30 minutes of sorting will eliminate many hours of frustration later
(although I only know this from hearsay -- never happened to me
_personally_ -- nope, never...).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:25 PM
> To: MOTM List
> Subject: Re: [motm] MOTM-190 resistor swapping
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Paul Schreiber <synth1@...>
> > Stooge Larry's Rule of Resistors: measure ∗every time∗. A 2
> second DVM
> check will reveal the correct value.
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> I still do this always. Seems like I often find something
> that is not as it
> appears. So many of the dang colors look the same anymore.
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> It may take a little bit of time. But, it is a good investment.
> Larry
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