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

[Paul Perry]

Doug is right, BUT, you do often see the E24 series made with 1% tolerance.
Putting the extra digit in makes sense, because if it has 3 digits, you KNOW
it is
a 1% for sure. But, I have plenty of cartons of E24 values that are 1%.

paul perry Melb australia
(BTW I had an EE graduate ask me "why do those resistors have an extra
band?"
well, that was a give away that there wasn't too much hands-on analog in the
course
at Latrobe University!!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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.
>