Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!NewsNG.Chicago.Qual.Net!jamie!Qual.Net!nyd.news.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.idt.net!nntp.giganews.com!newsgate.swbell.net!151.164.30.35.MISMATCH!cyclone.swbell.net!swbell!not-for-mail From: Rubywand Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: NEEDED: Color-code for carbon-film resistors Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:44:05 -0500 Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services, Richardson, TX Lines: 42 Message-ID: <358D7095.FF0020F6@swbell.net> References: <6mjhli$oie$2@lynx.unm.edu> Reply-To: rubywand@swbell.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-207-193-18-2.hstntx.swbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: (null) 898461794 8142 (None) 207.193.18.2 X-Complaints-To: usenet@nnrp3 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2:135942 stephen e buggie writes ... > > COLOR CODE NEEDED FOR RESISTORS > =============================== > > I've misplaced my color-code for the standard round carbon-film resistors. > > If anyone has it handy, could you type it in? Then I'll print it and > tape it to each of my boxes containing resistors. > Color Digit Multiplier (when 3rd band) Example Black 0 x1 -- Red Red Black = 22 Ohms Brown 1 x10 -- Blue Grey Brown = 680 Ohms Red 2 x100 -- Orange White Red = 3900 Ohms Orange 3 x1000 -- Yellow Violet Orange = 47k Ohms Yellow 4 x10000 -- Red Green Yellow = 250k Ohms Green 5 x100000 -- Orange Orange Green = 3.3M Ohms Blue 6 x1000000 -- Red Yellow Blue = 24M Ohms Violet 7 x10000000 -- ... Grey 8 x100000000 White 9 x1000000000 Gold - x 0.1 -- Brown Brown Gold = 1.1 Ohms Silver - x 0.01 -- Orange White Silver = 0.39 Ohms Tolerance (4th band) Gold is 5% Silver is 10% no color is 20% Example: Grey Red Orange Gold is 82k Ohms +/- 5% Example: Brown Black Green Silver is 1M Ohms +/- 10% Note: carbon resistors almost always err on the high side. Rubywand