@gabotron94
My biggest problem with these 1% resistors, is that the blue body makes it very hard to read the color bands!
@riccardoiacob4560
I always consider 1% Amazon resistors as 5%, so there are no issues. If I need more precise resistors, I'll buy them from an authorized distributor.
@smeggyhead1
3:22 That is not a Kelvin measurement setup. The contact resistance to the resistor will affect your result. For a correct Kelvin measurement, the sense and drive wires must connect directly to the conductor to be measured.
@jacquesmertens3369
My wife is a huge resistor, with 0% tolerance.
@Sine1040
I have been bitten by this more than 10 years ago. It turns out these "not quite 1%" resistors are actually 5% carbon film instead of 1% metal film. That indeed gets really obvious when you heat them. Metal film has a PTC effect. Carbon NTC.
@Tibbon
I'm really digging your videos so far! Short, no clickbait, easy to understand. Keep it up!
@gblargg
7:35 He knows the trick of the skin just above the lip being very sensitive to heat. I do this all the time for detecting warm components without even having to touch it, just get it near.
@zx8401ztv
Thank you for the english voice dub :-D Those blue body resistors are always a pain to read, but that's the standard for those metal film types.
@DrHarryT
Keep in mind that the copper core of the leads not only improves electrical conductivity but also thermal conductivity to the PCB traces for thermal dissipation.
@federicoberni3759
Very high quality video, you definitely deserve more subscribers and views!
@mtnwildernessfamily
I purchased that very same Elegoo resistor set on Amazon. I gave it 5 reviews. It's been over a year now. I've been using them for quick projects, mock ups to test. Then I switch over to SMD resistors for production. HOWEVER, a new IoT circuit board I created, I decided to use these resistors and not SMD. I have so many of the Elegoo, I figure I'd use them for this simple IoT device that just measure temperature, has an RGB LED that flashes each time a MQTT packet is sent. Less than two months and the three out of the five resistors have failed for such a small IoT circuit board. I soldered up a another board, four months later, one resistor fails for the green LED. Changing my review to 1 star!
@johnrehwinkel7241
Anything from amazon is going to run the risk of poor quality. Even well reviewed items, if you pay for a genuine item, and the seller ships a genuine item, you can still get a fake, due to amazon's "equivalent merchandise" policy, where they will ship an "equivalent" item from a closer warehouse for faster/cheaper delivery. The problem is they trust the vendors as to what is "equivalent" and they do business with a lot of sketchy sellers.
@rickschlosser6793
I work in the measurement industry. We bought true ‘precision’ resistors. They did not have color bars, they had the resistance printed right on them. (Number) I believe they were 0.0% tolerance, in other words bang on. But the resistance values available were limited as we usually only needed certain values. 250 ohm was very common.
@davidfalconer8913
When making ANY electronic project ( with old or surplus resistors ) ALWAYS test them first ... this takes time , but MUCH less time than having to fault find the non working circuit ! .... Old carbon composition resistors ( useful in RF circuits , very low inductance ) nearly always rise in value with age , the colour bands just form a guide ! ( from someone who mends valve ( tube ) radios .... DAVE™ ) 🛑
@-vermin-
Yeah I got a full refund when I sent photos to the Chinese seller showing that the resistors were mostly outside the specified 1% tolerance of the bulk pack I bought. They know. They just don't care.
@tomsherwood4650
If you need high quality precision resistors, you just have to cough up the long green for something like Dale or Vishay metal films from a US supplier or seller. In solid state projects, at least, generally the power dissipated in your hobby grade resistors is not enough to threaten their existence.
@tomstruble7380
Title says "Do Not Buy - I regret it", Speaker ends video with "there are merits to buying these products". Could you make a video with CLEAR recommendations that aren't wishy washy across the board? Perhaps you should state that your recommendations are plus or minus 50%.
@hoofbags
Agree with gabotron94: hard to see the colour code without a microscope! I initially met these resistors through a Vellerman kit, so assumed they made them as well. I feel it would be counter productive to knock resistor manufactures too hard, with surface mount SO components becoming dominant, we should show gratitude to any company still making wire ended components. Gr8 upload!
@W6EL
I got a similar pack from “BOJACK” and they were awful. Magnetic leads and resistance values in the +/- 10% range. High temperature sensitivity (punch the resistor with your finger and you see a large change). These cheaper resistors are not even enough for a lot of hobby uses. Probably good enough to demonstrate to kids what a resistor is used for, but not enough to make repairs or precision devices. I would not use these so-called 1% resistors to replace even an aged 5% carbon resistor. I may give that elegoo brand a try. And I guess I’ll go back to ordering from name brands when it counts (Vishay, Panasonic, and so on). Great video as always.
@rickvia8435