08-31-2014, 07:23 PM
Kirk
58.8K will likely work fine where 51K is supposed to. However if you solder around it, after you done re-measure as soldering exacerbate the value drift. If it did not change you could leave it, if after soldering around it went up another K or a few, change it, as it will get worse. progressively.
One school of thought is, change them all as they will eventually drift outside the acceptable (you and I will probably not be alive to see it but our descendants will curse us).
I do not subscribe to it, but it buys peace of mind, it does.
58.8K will likely work fine where 51K is supposed to. However if you solder around it, after you done re-measure as soldering exacerbate the value drift. If it did not change you could leave it, if after soldering around it went up another K or a few, change it, as it will get worse. progressively.
One school of thought is, change them all as they will eventually drift outside the acceptable (you and I will probably not be alive to see it but our descendants will curse us).
I do not subscribe to it, but it buys peace of mind, it does.
