2m 1/4 watt 1% resistors in the UK?

[Circuitbenders]

Am i just being blind or is it very difficult if not impossible to buy 2M 1/4 watt 1% metal film resisitors in the UK. Loads of places do 2M2 ones but nowhere will sell me 2M ones apart from some place in Hong Kong.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Gordonjcp]

2M2 should be close enough.  If you really *really* need 2M then use two 1M resistors in series.

Don't be too fussy about 1/4W, either.  If you can only find them in 1/8W that may well be perfectly adequate - to drop 1/4W across 2M you'd need to be dropping about 700V.

[Circuitbenders]

i was considering the two 1M method but this is actually for a proper PCB which needs about twenty 2M resistors so it's going to get a bit messy with 40 1M resistors poking up all over the place.

I can't find 1/8 watt or 1/2 watt 2M ones either.

I might have to go with 2.2M if i can't find 2M i guess but i'd prefer not to given the choice.

I could always just buy these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260435344219 but it annoyings me having to wait ages to get somthing as simple as resisitors al the way from Hong Kong.

[noystoise]

maybe this?
http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=3L5W6s5NbHhFBBd%252bK%2fgIMQ%3d%3d

[Gordonjcp]

What exactly is the circuit?  Is 2M 1% a hard requirement, or can you play with it a bit?

[Circuitbenders]

Its the analogue board from the MFOS 16 step analogue sequencer. The sixteen 2M resistors go out to the tuning pots on the front panel so i'd imagine i could use 2.2M one if i just tuned everything slightly off but its not the best solution, although i'm not entirely sure how the tuning knobs position relates to real life anyway.

[Gordonjcp]

All that'll happen is that you'll have a tiny bit less swing on your fine-tune pots.  Don't sweat it.

[Circuitbenders]

for some reason i was reading it as being for the coarse tuning pots but looking at the component layout it does seem to be for the fine tuning ones which i guess isn't as much of an issue. 

[Gordonjcp]

Y'know you could stack several of the gate boards and have slide and accent outputs as well.  Have a look at the 303 circuit diagram to see how the slide part might work.