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I have a resistor in a Merak center channel that I'm modding. The resistor is a white long-house shaped thing with the following printed on its top: "7W5R"
Anyone make any sense of the resistor's value from 7W5R ?
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There no bands on it?
http://itll.colorado.edu/ITLL/index.cfm?fuseaction=ResistorChart for the colour code (or "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly" - yes, honestly the way we were taught to remember it!)
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No bands. I have a digital picture, but no host, so no way to post it.
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Thank you BigJohn
The white thingie is the resistor
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no problem..
hope you can do something with that bren.
its all just wood and wires to me!!
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Hmm.. maybe would help to see a better pic (of the whole circuit) if possible... it looks like it's glued in, but...
It looks like (hard to tell from the pic) you have a sand block resistor there - used to find them a lot in CB radios. The marking is confusing though, they'll usually be marked, say... 5W50(omega)±5% - 5 Watt, 50 Ohm give or take 5%.
Maybe if I could see the whole circuit... looks like there's an electrolytic cap behind it... other than that - it might as well be lego.
Worst case scenario... take it out of the circuit and measure it with a multimeter.
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7W5R eh...
could be 7 watt resistor, 5 ohm.
Usually they have the color bands as mentioned above, or in the case of ceramics they have a number. Id have to go look at some of my notes to decode the ceramic type but color bands are easy, there are a bunch of online calculators. As BrenR suggested, if you have a DMM just set it to resistance and measure it, you can just clip the leads onto it without un soldering it, but probbly wont get an accurate reading.
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Nice find chess 
I forgot, when i said that the ceramic ones had a numerical code i was talking about small ceramic CAPACITORS... DOH! (yes, its been a while) I better get my stuff straight cos' im gonna be starting my AAS in electronics technoloy starting this fall.
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