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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Ease up on the current
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Date: 11 Nov 89 10:21:24 GMT
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Looks like you have two easy (?) choices:

	increase the resistor value so there will be less current and therefore
less heat.

	get another resistor/transistor pair and run them in parallel so each
only dissapates half the power (you'll have to fix the resistor values) and
therefore half the heat.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu