Timeline for Other than cost, is there a reason to not use higher rated components than called for by design?
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| Jan 21, 2015 at 1:50 | comment | added | Matt B | I agree that in the right circumstances this is a good approach - with one caveat. When bringing up/validating a new design be careful of substituting higher rated parts than specified (eg. using a 1% resistor instead of a 5%) in case, later on down the track, the lower rated part is used in production and you suddenly find out the design worked fine with a 1% but fails with a 5%. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Within reason. Substituting a 1000W resistor for a 1/4W resistor, eg, would likely introduce significant inductance into the circuit. Using a 1W in place of a 1/4W, OTOH, is very unlikely to be a problem. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 9:33 | answer | added | Andy aka | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 2:44 | comment | added | AJMansfield | Higher rated fuses, though... | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 2:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackElectronix/status/555545621764247552 | ||
| Jan 15, 2015 at 1:36 | answer | added | Magoo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 22:42 | vote | accept | kolosy | ||
| Jan 14, 2015 at 22:21 | answer | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 22:04 | answer | added | Olin Lathrop | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 22:00 | answer | added | Some Hardware Guy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 21:57 | answer | added | helloworld922 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 21:57 | comment | added | user16222 | Higher power rated devices are generall y bigger and a design might not tolerate it | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 21:55 | history | edited | kolosy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2015 at 21:49 | history | asked | kolosy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |