Maximum Resistor Voltage Chart
I'm constantly trying to find a happy medium between current limiting resistors too large, causing too small of a current, and too small, exceeding their power ratings.
I finally got tired enough of iterating through one of these problems today that I fired up Octave and made this handy Resistor - Voltage chart for 1/4W resistors.
Making the chart was fairly simple:
This is why I love Octave.
I finally got tired enough of iterating through one of these problems today that I fired up Octave and made this handy Resistor - Voltage chart for 1/4W resistors.
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Making the chart was fairly simple:
r = logspace(0, 7, 10000); emax = sqrt((0.25).*r); loglog(r,emax) grid title("Maximum Voltage Chart (1/4W)") xlabel("Resistor Value") ylabel("Maximum Voltage") print("ResistorVoltageChart.png")
This is why I love Octave.