Timeline for Warming up metal plate safely
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| Mar 9, 2018 at 2:07 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | A 20 watt resistor connected to a big metal plate won't necessarily get hot. The temperature depends on the power and the thermal conductance of the stuff taking heat away, not so much on the resistor's rating (except that higher rated resistors are bigger), so it should be fine to use a 20-watt resistor at 20 watts... | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 23:51 | vote | accept | RoastDuck | ||
| Mar 8, 2018 at 23:31 | history | answered | Transistor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |