a small question_

[Harry Bissell]

Do you mean the color code... Its easy. For 5 or 10% parts there ate
three color bands... two value and one multiplier (or the number of
zeros following the two significant digits). All values are in ohms.
the color code is
Black = 0
Brown =1
Red = 2
Orange = 3
Yellow = 4
Green = 5
Blue = 6
Violet = 7
Grey = 8
White = 9

So a resistor with the colors (from the end) Brown Black Orange would
mean
One Zero and Three Zeros or 10,000 ohms. Also known as 10K (kilo = 1000)

you may remember the code with the Mnenomic
"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly"  My dad told
me this one time and said I'd never forget it... He was right.

A fourth Gold band means 5% tolerance, a Silver means 10%. If the fourth
band is colored, it is a 1% resistor.

1% resistors have Three signifigant bands and a multiplier. Color code
is the same.

So a Brown Black Black Red is a
One Zero Zero and Two zeros, or 10,000 ohm. Again its a 10K

Radio shack sells a chart. Resistors under 10 ohms have a different and
uncommon color scheme. Ohmmeters are a good idea for checking colors
that are a little "off color".

Go for it!   :^) Harry

adroxy at telusplanet.net wrote:

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>      hallo, a rather silly question, i just bought a paia kit and im
> wondering if anyone could point me to a legend so i can
> differentiate between the resistors,   thanks _will
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