Re: Question? UCN5804

funny how we are beating this dead horse with brooms and sticks and
the horse seems to be winning as often as the brooms and sticks.


Time to put this one on the off topic list. ain't no CNC or EDM or
DRO in these posts anymore.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, JanRwl@A... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/3/2003 12:14:59 PM Central Standard Time,
> billkichman@c... writes:
>
> > Just for reference, the calculation is "Product over Sum" for
resistors in
> > parallel. Multiply all the individual resistors by one another
(works of
> > they are all alike or not) and then divide that number by the sum
value of
> > all the resistors.
> >
>
> That is correct for TWO resistors in parallel. But the talk here
has been
> about SEVERAL in parallel. That is ALSO easy to remember: The
total R of any
> number of R's in parallel is the RECIPROCAL of the SUM of the
RECIPROCALS of
> each R value. The various R's can of course be any (mixed) values.
>
>
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