Wirewound resistors, power precision resistors and shunt resistors are composed of Microhm main lineup.The wirewound resistor is usually made by winding insulated resistance wire of a specific diameter around a bobbin. Different wire diameters, lengths, and alloys provide the desired resistance and initial characteristics. Precision wirewound resistors have better ESD stability and lower noise than thin or thick film resistors. Wirewounds also have a lower TCR and better stability.

 
The initial tolerance of wirewound resistors can be at low as ±0.005%. The TCR, which is the amount of resistance change with each degree Centigrade change in temperature, can be as little as 2 ppm/°C, Microhm NCR series is a typical precision wirewound resistor with ±0.005% tolerance and 2 ppm/°C ; but for low resistance values, wirewounds are generally in the region of 15 ppm/°C to 25 ppm/°C. Thermal noise is low, and TCR tracking to ±1 ppm/°C over a limited temperature range is possible.

 
Because of their coiled-wire construction, wirewound resistors are inductors, and the proximity of the turns creates intercoil capacitance. To increase the response time in service, special winding techniques may be used to reduce the inductance. Due to the inductance and capacitance inherent in the design, wirewound resistors have poor high-frequency characteristics, particularly above 50 kHz.
It is difficult to make two wirewound resistors that accurately track each other over a specified temperature range when they are of the same nominal resistance value, and especially so when their values are not the same or when they are of different sizes (e.g., to meet different power requirements). The difficulty increases as the divergence of the resistance values increases.

 The reason for this disparity is that a 1-kΩ resistor is made with a different diameter, length, and possibly alloy of wire than, for example, a 100-kΩ resistor. Moreover, the core sizes and turns per inch are different — again, mechanical properties affect electrical properties. Since the different values have different thermo-mechanical characteristics, their in-service stabilities vary and designed resistor ratios diverge more through equipment life. The TCR tracking and ratio stability are extremely important in high-precision circuitry.