I am looking to short out a resistor - any way I can actually short one out so that it is faulty of its own. Also, any ideas if i can blow one so it is open or is the fact it ends up being shorted or open a random thing that when it is bad it just so happens to be one or the other, not that certain conditions produce one and other conditions produce the other.Any insight into this is very helpfull. Oh, I know about use the jumper wire to reproduce a shorted component I was hoping to actually use a damaged component and I do not have one right now. Thank You Kindly One and All(this is not a school related lesson, I am trying to teach myself at home - I'm an adult learner).
there are many kinds of resistors. fixed carbon resistors have a wattage rating. if you exceed the wattage (may be dangerous) the resistor will heat up excessively and burn. it stops burning when it is physically broken and cannot continue to conduct electricity (or blows the fuse). this then creates an open circuit. open circuits are commonly misnamed short circuits. a short circuit happens when the electricity in a circuit takes a shorter (or different) path than the circuit was designed. this may burn out a circuit component, then you will have an open circuit. does this make sense?
