Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.22.MISMATCH!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:18:41 +0000 From: DJ Delorie Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics Subject: Re: Resistors in parallel References: Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hua1Egb2vwjUnO1LXjv/nIM1v0c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 5 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-pacHVJMarqom8Wt1eJHW5c10Y36F0OQqhYTZ6/SoVRimpry+20rILnjz7heh+pAdF13Bx78fPBH64hT!uy9GTLaubIsv4H2J/jehvKMlFW8o154b2eKFKz2o3x0LYaGVxQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Received-Bytes: 1311 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.basics:54759 Same resistors in parallel divide... for 4 watts out of 0.5 watters you need eight resistors, so 8x the value: 8 * 15k = 120K (because 8 120k resistors in parallel, divide by 8, is 15k)