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Re: BestPair III now does 0.1%, 1% and 5%

Subject: Re: BestPair III now does 0.1%, 1% and 5%
From: nospam
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 02:02:18 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics, sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design
Mike Monett <No@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks. Adding the E192 values is a good idea, but I'm not so sure about 
>mixing  different resistor tolerances. 

The mixing is entirely optional. 

>For example, what's the point in 
>paralleling 5% and 0.1% resistors? If they are approximately equal, the 5% 
>tolerance and drift characteristics would dominate, so you would get a very 
>fine adjustment of a lousy resistor:)

There is little point, but the E24 range is available in 1% and 0.1% and
E96 in 1% also. I quickly checked digikey and found one line of 0.05%
resistor only available in E24 for example. 

There is no reason to exclude combinations of E24 and E96 or even E192 if
you can get them with the same tolerance (and you can). 

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