From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:39:39 -0900, Christopher Howard   
    wrote:   
      
   >> 10M chip resistors might work for some tasks.   
   >   
   >This is an interesting idea, though one intuitively would want the   
   >resistance to be as high as possible. I did some quick Internet research   
   >to see how high I could go in resistance without the resistor getting   
   >expensive. I would think for my purposes a through-hole resistor would   
   >be more ideal, allowing me to solder on a wire and then still have room   
   >to clip a lead on, or what not.   
   >   
   >I see that 10 megaohm resistors are quite cheap, of course. On mouser,   
   >through hole resistors up to a few hundred megaohm can be workably   
   >cheap, like 50 cents each at low quantities. The gigaohm resistors all   
   >seem to be quite expensive.   
   >   
   >I wonder if one can get, in some form, a simple insulator with leads   
   >attached.   
      
   I have some 1T 0805 resistors.   
      
   Here's a 1G resistor:   
      
   https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ke1zpnsg29pvqy3zjibws/Keithley_1g   
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   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
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