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[–] Haus@kbin.earth 205 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Use 2 E192 in parallel: a 6.19Ω resistor with a 4500Ω resistor. This gives 6.1846Ω which is close enough for rock and roll.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I feel like this is one of those comments I want to hoard in the off chance that I ever get into this and start building shit but I know deep inside me that's never gonna happen.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just learn the math, it’s quite easy. IIRC you just add the reciprocals of the resistors then take the reciprocal of the answer.

1/Req = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 ….

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