Defective Resistor

David Root · Post by **David Root** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:18 am

Anyone run into this before? One lead just fell off the resistor body, I found it in the bag like this. It was attached a few days ago. Looks like it simply failed to attach properly during the manufacturing process. This is USA product too.

dartanion · Post by **dartanion** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:21 am

Call the vendor and complain. I'll bet they'll send you some replacements pronto!

David Root · Post by **David Root** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:42 am

I'm going to send the pic to them. I like these metal film resistors and I never had any problems at all with them until this. I have been using them for about 4 years.

greiswig · Post by **greiswig** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:41 pm

I agree that it's defective, but...hey, it's a resistor. How much did it cost? Maybe pulling one of the good ones out of the bag as you watch this would help?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkusicUL2s

Andy Le Blanc · Post by **Andy Le Blanc** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:12 pm

It happens. One would like to make of assumptions of quality, but..........

Tonegeek · Post by **Tonegeek** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:55 pm

I had that happen on a Mallory .0047 cap. just fell off as I was about to solder it to the board

Structo · Post by **Structo** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:09 pm

What brand is the resistor?

Looks like a spot weld that failed.

David Root · Post by **David Root** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:27 am

PRP. I looked at it with my wife's big magnifying glass and it looks like something rectangular got in between the two surfaces and spoiled the spot weld.

I sent the pic to PRP but no-one contacted me so far. It's not a big deal, no-one expects these parts to be made in a clean room, but I'd never run into it before.

selloutrr · Post by **selloutrr** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:08 pm

shit happens i've had it happen don't judge the quality until you contact the company or the distributor and give them a chance to resolve the issue they try hard to have quality control but duds do slip by if the product is worth half a shit they will bend over backward to make you happy.

tubeswell · Post by **tubeswell** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:34 pm

Yep I've had that happen with CC before. One time it was a marginal 100k plate resistor that (until it fell apart when I was taking it out) I didn't know for sure was causing this horrid staticky shite. (But when I replaced it with a good one, the problem was fixed.)

paulster · Post by **paulster** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:54 pm

I've found the PRPs to be really robust, since they have larger diameter leads than most.

Very odd.

Great sounding resistors, by the way.

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