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I found the following component but I don't know what it is. In particular, what does the ΩJ unit mean?

photo of component marked 5W 10mΩJ

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That's not J for joules. It's probably J for 5% tolerance. The component is just a 10 mΩ resistor with a 5 W rating.

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hobbs
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    Probably we have a dupe somewhere on the site for this kind of code, but I wasn't able to turn it up with a bit of searching. – hobbs Feb 18 '22 at 14:37
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    https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/484095/47070 – JRE Feb 18 '22 at 14:40
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"J" means a resistor value tolerance of +/- 5% as per this site.

The resistor in question has a value of 10 milli-ohms (\$m\Omega\$).

It also applies to capacitors as per this wiki site: -

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