Originally Posted By: mlord
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
Interesting. I couldn't quite get my head around why you would want to interrupt a trace with a more expensive component that doesn't DO anything. But that makes perfect sense now. Modular hardware design. Neat.