[sdiy] Re: 1/4W 1% film resistors.

[The Peasant]

Most people designing circuits use the E24 set of 5% tolerance values (see the 
chart that I posted the link to yesterday). But if you use 1% resistors like I 
do, they come in the E96 series which has slightly different values. So you 
just have to choose the E96 values closest to the E24 series, for example, if a 
3.3K resistor is specified the closest E96 value would be 3.32K, which is well 
within the 5% tolerance of the original specified part.

Take care,
Doug
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Quoting Sumanth Peddamatham <peddamat at gmail.com>:

> this may sound like a naive question, but why are only a few resistor
> values common?
> 
> see, i was going to place an order for the 10,000 resistor set on
> ebay, but then i realized that the circuits i build usually require
> resistors that gravitate toward a small set of common values.  i
> understand that one is afforded a certain flexibility when designing
> circuits, but the values in the 10,000 auction seem targetted to
> people using automated design tools.  could someone please clarify?
> 
> 
> sumanth peddamatham
> 
>