At 03:58 PM 7/21/2006 -0400, Kim Brennan wrote:
>Well. You should look at it sometime, and you'd find out why it
>costs what it does. it's about 3 1/2 inchs long and about 7/8th of
>an inch in diameter. It's a BIG resistor. And resistors, by their
>very nature produce heat.

Sure they do.  But the amount they produce is quantifiable and the
amount of cooling they need is also quantifiable and the idea of a
seventy-five dollar (or whatever) resistor being a consumable is
downright offensive.  That's just plain shoddy engineering, if you
can even call it that.  It gives German engineering a bad name and it
makes German arrogance about German engineering a bad joke.  They
wouldn't dare do something so sloppy on an airplane.

I, of German-English stock say this.

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