Originally Posted By: tman
Originally Posted By: lectric
OK, I have to ask. Isn't a 0 ohm resistor like, a wire?

Yup. Its handy to have it in a regular resistor form factor for when you need to bridge two points when you're doing automated assembly.

And good board designers add a liberal dose of them on most I/O circuits, so that individual parts of the circuitry can be disabled/corrected easily in the event of a design/layout error.

Cheers