Hard to find resistor, suggestions?

[radkins]

I have a control box from a friend's John Deere hay baler with a broken resistor, the box was physically damaged. The only parts we need to fix this thing is a couple of Bosch type relays which are easy to find but one of them was pushed down onto a resistor and ruined it also. This thing is a .03 Ohm 10 Watt resistor with a 5% tolerance. Been searching the net and can't come up with a thing, found a few .03 Ohm but only in 1, 1/2 and 2 Watts. Any suggestions on where to find something like this or some type of substitute?

[lakeside53]

3 of these in series : http://www.ebay.com/itm/10x-Ceramic-...item4d014ef909

or one of these (bigger, but)... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-Tone-Al...item564799275d

2 of these in parallel : http://www.ebay.com/itm/5W-0-06-ohm-...item35afdd6e0a

[radkins]

Not sure how you did that, I bet I searched E-Bay for over half an hour and came up with nothing close to that! The 50 Watt one will be just fine since we have lots of room in the case and even if it won't fit inside I will still find a place to mount it.


Thanks!

[lakeside53]

lol... I just typed in "0.03 resistor" (no quotes)

[J Tiers]

In stock at Mouser Electronics if you can tolerate a 1% instead of the less precise 5%......

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/...2Zbwa6XPLCA%3d

[radkins]

lol... I just typed in "0.03 resistor" (no quotes)

I typed in .03 resistor, danged thing sure is picky!

[Evan]

Just use ten feet of 14 gauge copper wire.

[beanbag]

Just use ten feet of 14 gauge copper wire.

Just make sure it isn't copper coated steel wire

[H380]

You can search your heart out here.

http://www.newark.com/fixed-value

[J Tiers]

Just use ten feet of 14 gauge copper wire.

Tempco of resistance is a killer on copper. Most all resistors are made of a low tempco material so that the resistance stays pretty close.

Don't believe it? Try copper as a meter shunt someday.........