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I second the opinion of reusing the original resistor. It real world proven and verified!
Resistors have no moving parts and since your airflow never stopped it has not been put under any excessive strain.
Aftermarket items could be as my Dad use to say about Radio Shack parts. He said, They would buy parts from a manufacturer, the ones that fell on the floor as rejects or start up tests. The manufacturer sweeps them up into boxes. Radio Shack buys them, runs sample test batches and packages them in different ways at different prices!
He told me this because I once tried building on of their new, large (3/4"), RED LED clock kits! I was going to custom make one to fit into the dash of my full size '74 pickup. They did not come with a clock and they were junk in any vehicles back then anyway!
With this kits plan had you buy individual packaged up components, a la carte. Unknown to me it had unmarked diodes in it. I knew very little about what I was attempting to do. Just a young snot, you see!
I ended up putting them all in backwards by trying to read them with a ohmmeter for polarity. I missed named their ends to the flow of the meter leads.
My Dad asked, why did you use unmarked diodes in the first place? He replied, Ah, huh, they didn't make it though the line!
That's when I got the low down on that paragraph above plus I never used it in the truck. Stupid me did not know It needed to see an 60 hertz AC signal pulse to keep time.
A Dud, was my whole idea!
Still got the stupid thing in a box, somewhere, since the seventies. It Never did light up all the segments correctly. Dad said it was probably in the display driver?
Again, Radio Shack! Maybe that's why they dumped having so much stuff like that in their stores.
Anyway this happens in all industries.
Often there are "pallet buyers" doing the same thing except they sell the goods themselves or to those who have niche markets.
In our cases the, Trick is finding a chain of reputable middlemen!
There are always a buck chaser out there in the marketplace with grab bag offers. Gamblers and suckers are raised alike. Their are on every corner and on both sides of the sales counter.
I know about those feelings of shopping, as I do it myself? No one likes being ripped off but getting sold junk too boot, stings with the same pain! (:-(
Oh! Jeepers and greasy creepers, I wrote a short story again, sorry! Darn opinion questions, get me every time!
Phil
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