As a rule, all resistors that cannot be assigned to neither analog nor digital signal technology are designated as load resistors. But there is no clear distinction. For a signal engineer, a resistance of 0.5 W in power supply already constitutes a load resistor while a power engineer would consider a 50 W resistor to be “peanuts”. Both have in common that they do not transmit signals but are used as load or current limiting resistors. Heating resistors, too, are load resistors where the heat generated serves as available heat while for all other technical applications the heat constitutes a waste product of the load resistor that is not desired but can also not be avoided. GINO almost exclusively manufactures load resistors for technical applications in the range of approx. 100 W up to several 1000 kW.

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