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[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by madlabs

Nope. With the resistors in series each resistor still has to handle all the current flowing through it.

Yup. All the current.

So the wattage rating remains the same.

Since they're in series, each resistor sees only half the voltage. So the wattage rating of the pair hasta double.

Just for example - two 20K half-watters in series makes a 40K @ 1 watt rating.

Just as two 20K half-watters in parallel makes a 10K @ 1 watt rating.