Method for confectioning resistors, resistor, and heating device

Abstract

This disclosure refers to a method for confectioning resistors that each comprise a PTC ceramic plate and metallic electrode layers covering opposite faces of the ceramic plate, said method comprising the following steps: measuring an electrical resistance of a resistor to be confectioned by applying an electrical potential to one of electrode layers such that an electric current flows from one of the electrode layers through the ceramic plate to the electrode layer on the opposite face of the ceramic plate, comparing the measured resistance to a target resistance, and removing, if the measured resistance is lower than the target resistance, a section of at least one of the electrode layers. This disclosure also refers to such a resistor and a heating device comprising such resistors.

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