yeah you would think that basic principles would hold true. but for some reason, which has baffled me since i tried it every multimeter stil shows 5k on pot and 1.35k across chip. don't understand why. i thought it was my mulit meter. but i got a new one and it still says same. but if get same value resistors and parrallel them i get what you said, which is what i should, hmm maybe i got a bad batch of chips.