Re: [[EE] Resistor power rating

Vishay and Bourns both have info on their wesbites about selecting
resistors for pulse load applications:

https://www.vishay.com/docs/48516/_ms9702509-2401-vishaychecklistpulseload.pdf
https://www.bourns.com/products/resistors/pulse-power-resistors

On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 19:32, Jason White <[email protected]>
wrote:

> vishay makes some nice pulse rated 2512's that have some graphs where you
> can look this up in
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM David VanHorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Normally, resistor power ratings assume 100% duty cycle, so 1/0.016 would
> > be a first approximation, but the part may not be capable of withstanding
> > that much pulsed power.
> > Unfortunately, the low duty cycle ratings are hard to find on most
> > resistors.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM David C Brown <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I am planning to use a 2R2 resistor to limit the current to a solenoid
> to
> > > 6amps.
> > > Ohms law says that the power dissipation is about 80watts.
> > >
> > > But the duration of the current pulse is only 16mS.   Does that mean
> > that I
> > > can get away with a lower power rating and, if so, how much lower?
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