In Reply to: RE: Would you mind... posted by mikeyb on September 18, 2012 at 06:05:52:
Same with mills mra. Especially NI resistors due to the construction.
cook an egg.
Without calculating the ambient temp. into the actual heat dissipated, they can and will get very hot. Not had one fail yet though.
FWIW, I kinda got away from the finger tests for heat.
My preferred method is a contact probe.:-)) It doesn't blister.
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