[TechAssist] Re: Resistor color code--strange colors!

  • From: "Leonard Caillouet" <lcaillo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:29:13 -0400

Go to http://www.moyerelectronics.com/ for a good resistor value calculator
with 4,5, & 6 band options.  Look in the downloads area.

Leonard G. Caillouet
Electronics World
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "becyn" <becyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Resistor color code--strange colors!


On some very low tolerance resistors they use three signifcant digits
instead of two.
so : 220 X .01 = 2.2. Is there a fifth band? That would be the tolerance

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Hugh @ Main TV wrote:

>Ok techs---what would you say this resistor is----red-red-black- silver-?
I said 22 ohms -----but Sony says 2.2 ohms  they made up their own color
code?
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