Need to find a 3.3Mohm resistor

[ken_cinder]

I can't find this kind of resistor in any average store. I need a 3.3Mohm resistor with a 10% tolerance, and no.....Radio Shack doesn't sell em. Ebay comes up with nothing either.

Anyone know of an electronics store online that would carry these? A store that will ship to Canada, and accepts either Paypal or a Money Order/Cheque. I know of an electronics liquidation place that sells them, but they #1 Don't ship to Canada #2 Only accept purchases directly through credit card processing (And I'm not giving my credit card number to some webshop, period)

 

And no, this doesn't belong in PC Technical Support forum.

[Inky]

did you check here

http://www.cpcares.com/

they are in california but I don't see why they wouldn't ship to canada. i didn't see a paypal logo there though.

[ken_cinder]

They don't carry 3.3s of any type, thanks though.

 

I think I may have found an Ebayer who will sell me one, along with a 44 piece package (Can't hurt to have a stockpile of other resistors). It's probably better I buy from him anyway, cost me $10 for what would cost me $50 in a store like Radio Shack.

[Robert]

To be honest, I could walk into any electronics store in Australia and find that resistor. The cost would be 10 cents maximum. I would have thought it would be easier in your country. :puzzled:

[ken_cinder]

I've never seen a Carbon Composition resistor over 1Mohm in any regular electronics store here, I could probably find it in a specialty shop that caters only to the needs of those seeking parts as such. We don't have one in the town I live in though.

 

Oh and you could probably walk from one end of Australia to the other, faster than I could walk across the single province I live in here. It's a little different here, where the larger stores are huge retail chains that cater to the braindead masses with prefab crap. It ain't easy for a hobbyist to find anything they need without going to a specialty store.

[Robert]

Maybe I could snail-mail one to you?

[Gryph]

Are you trying to build a time machine?

[ken_cinder]

Are you trying to build a time machine?

 

Need a 333Gohm resistor to finish that project. This is just to fix one of my TVs.

[Thraxen]

Link

[ken_cinder]

Nice Thraxen, I'm going to bookmark that for future use. Unfortunately they don't carry any with a 10% tolerance, only 5%.

[Thraxen]

Oops... sorry, forgot to look at the tolerance.

[Robert]

There's nothing wrong with getting a 5% tolerance. It will be better than a 10% one.

[ken_cinder]

There's nothing wrong with getting a 5% tolerance. It will be better than a 10% one.

 

Sure, if your goal is to constrict a signal that much. But when you require that a signal that can vary as much as 10% either way (Over or under) it's not exactly a good idea.

[Robert]

The tolerance refers to the actual resistance. It's marked as 3.3M, but out of the factory it could be up to 10% higher or lower than the marked value. A 5% resistor is made to tighter tolerance and will be more accurate (and slightly more expensive). It has nothing to do with the use you put it to.

[ken_cinder]

It absolutely does, otherwise there would be no purpose in tolerance levels.

When you're working with a video signal that can, and does fluctuate within those levels.......restricting the signal too much can cause a loss if it fluctuates outside the tolerance range.

Lowering the tolerance in a guitar amp by using a 5% instead of a 10% is a whole different story, it is more accurate and you're keeping the sound reproduction closer to what it should be.