Big fat resistor question

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:34:24AM +0200, Lee Davison wrote:
> >>> From the description of the resistor style, can anyone tell
> >>> what the wattage might be?
> >> A WW2 should be 2.4W. The wattage is n*1.2
> > 
> > Excellent.  Thank you.
> 
> Sure beats "test it until destruction, then back off a little" :-)

Isn;t that how you get the right torque on a deflection yoke clamp 
screw? You know, tighten it until the CRT implodes then back off 1/4 of a 
turn 

:-)

-tony