Come on David, quit pussy footing around and tell us what you really think.

Hope mine doesn't go out but I wouldn't bet on it.

Mike

On 7/21/06 3:09 PM, "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> 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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