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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
No, at the time, I had the resistor put in with clip leads. I didn't want to hard mount it to find out I needed a different value.
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OK, I don't know what the "free air" dissipation of the resistor might be, possibly it could get pretty hot if dissipating, say only 5 watts... where does that take us? Plugging in 5 watts and 18 ohms into the equation yields about 9.5 volts drop (but you say you are 12 volts too low) and about 500 ma current (but the orig rectifiers were only 350 ma or so). IMHO, something downstream is drawing more current than the original design called for.
jr