Friday, February 20, 2009

Derating MIL Spec Resistors


The section on how to derate electronic components has now reached about 120 pages. The main location of Device Derating. A few sections go down two or three levels, but most pages reside just two levels down, with about 95 page just added in three months ago [Transistor Derating Curves].

The new pages cover derating curves for MIL Spec resistors. So far the pages do little more than hold a power derating curve, but with all new page additions that will change in a few days.

MIL SPEC Derating Curves:
MIL-R-30095,
MIL-R-39005,
MIL-R-39007,
MIL-R-39008,
MIL-R-39009,
MIL-R-39015,
MIL-R-39017,
MIL-R-55182,
MIL-R-83401,

All of the new pages are liked off the (now) main Resistor Derating page.
Related pages include;
How to Derate Resistor Networks,
Potentiometer Derating Guidelines,
Wire Wound Potentiometer Derating Curves,

Of course all the pages link to vendors that Manufacture Resistors.
Note; the graphics which depict the curves are not the best quality, but the are readable.