Posted by Mark Jones on 08/25/05 23:31

erial # 19781010 wrote:
> 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).
>
Yes, but 150 would still be better than 200.

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