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Old 8th Aug 2017, 7:46 pm   #2
TonyDuell
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Default Re: REN, Resistors &c.

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Originally Posted by ThePillenwerfer View Post
I've never fully understood the need for resistors as if I put several bells in parallel the total Inductive Reactance will increase and reduce the current drawn anyway. If this is the case though I can't see why the GPO would have bothered to change over to 2,000Ω.
Come again? If you put inductors in parallel then unless there is some magnetic coupling between them (which in the case of telephone bells would seem unlikely) they behave like resistors in parallel. The reactance will decrease.
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