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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hi everyone, this is probably a stupid question.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">I am working from a schematic and after each resistor it says either '1/4w' or '1/2w' like this: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">47K 1/4W Resistor.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Can anybody explain to me what this means?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; white-space: pre;">Cheers, Chris</span></div> <br /><hr />Got a cool Hotmail story? <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/' target='_new'>Tell us now</a></body>
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