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Resistor Values and Combinations

The schematic calls for resistor values that are not available to us without some light sorcery. This is an attempt.

Every resistor from the pack is rated for 0.25W and has a tolerance of \pm5%. Want to figure out how that could affect my calculations? Me neither.

90Hz-110Hz

low-pass

(120 \parallel 47) + 3.3 = 37.072 \Omega

high-pass

(68 \parallel 47) + (470 \parallel 2.2) = 28.245 \Omega

290Hz-310Hz

low-pass

(220 \parallel 68) + 2.2 + 1 = 55.144 \Omega

high-pass

Luckily, we already have 47 \Omega resistors.

950Hz-1050Hz

low-pass

(22 \parallel 47) + 2.2 = 17.186 \Omega ...or alternatively: (10 \parallel 10) + 10 + 1 + 1 = 17 \Omega

high-pass

(10 \parallel 10) + 10 = 15 \Omega

3.2kHz - 3.4kHz

low-pass

47 + 1 + 1 = 49 \Omega

high-pass

22 + 22 + 1 + 1 = 46 \Omega

...no one ever said we had to be clever.

9khz - 11khz

low-pass

(10 \parallel 10) + (68 \parallel 3.3) + 10 = 18.147 \Omega

high-pass

(22 \parallel 22) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 14 \Omega


Bonus: some fun(?) and useful(?) resistor values

(10 \parallel 10) = 5 \Omega

(220 \parallel 22) = 20 \Omega

(22 \parallel 22) = 11 \Omega

(100 \parallel 150) = 60 \Omega