Posted by Serial # 19781010 on 08/25/05 07:26

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:30:15 GMT, "Mark Jones"
<noemail@mindspring.com> wrote:

>WinField wrote:
>> Corrosion aside,
>> one gold connect in a line of regular solder/lead/tin/copper
>> connections isn't going to do anything for line resistance.
>
>What are you basing this on?

It's called Ohm's Law....
resistance in series is always cumlative.

So if you plug, say, a series of cables together and one has 100 ohms
resistance and one has 50 ohms resistance and one is a "perfect" gold
plated cable with no resistance the total resistance will be 150 ohms.
The existance of the perfect cable in a series circuit does not make
the total circuit perfect (no resistance).

What's of more practical importance than resistance in most
applications is if the cable is well shielded and the physical build
quality (reliability).

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