nophead's vitreous enamel resistors

since I can't seem to post comments to nopheads blog (the captcha just says "Loading..." and never loads) I'll ask here in the forum:

where did you get the resistor pictured here? what is the part number?
[hydraraptor.blogspot.com]


I can't seem to find anything equivalent on all the usual sites (digikey, jameco) but mouser did have something similar:
[mouser.com]

But I'd rather not make an order to mouser just for a resistor.

Hello fenn,
No idea why you can't comment on my blog, others can.

I got them from RS [uk.rs-online.com]

Farnell also list them but they seem to have stopped selling them. It may just be a bug in their web catalogue. It shows the non ROHS version with a link to a replacement, but it actually links to a 4R7.

The Mouser one is longer and thinner and a lower wattage but may work if you make the aluminium block longer.

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Nop: I am not able to comment on your blog, either. When I try, a captcha window drops down and says that it is loading the sequence that I am supposed to type in to preclude spamming.

The problem is that the sequence never loads and you just wait indefinitely. I tried to comment with both Firefox and Internet Exploder and got the same result.

You might want to look into that.

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Yes it seems to be broken at the moment but it was working a few days ago as I have to fill in capchas if I am not logged in. Also somebody posted anonymously this morning so they should have had to use a captcha.

I do know Google had some problems with email this morning.

Presumably if you log in to blogger it will work?

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nophead Wrote:
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> Presumably if you log in to blogger it will work?
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Nope, still broken.

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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

I have turned off captchas so it should work now.

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It does.

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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

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> I can't seem to find anything equivalent on all
> the usual sites (digikey, jameco) but mouser did
> have something similar:

I think digikey does carry these. I put "RWM" into digikey's search, and seemed to come up with the same (Vishay, up to 450 deg C.) resistors

the digikey p/n is RWMB-6.8CT-ND
the mfgr's p/n is RWM06226R80JA15E1
This part is avail in min quantity of 5. There's another p/n (cheaper) per resistor, but 250 min order.

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Larry Pfeffer,

My blog about building repstrap Cerberus:
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