[sdiy] Odd resistor marking

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org> wrote:
>blue-grey-orange-orange-[space]-orange
>
>Anyone?
>
>I've pulled a couple of these from a defunct mixer and they
>all measure 6k83 (to makes things even more confusing).
>
>And it's a pretty bright orange, so no way it's a discoloured red.
>(even if it was, that would be 68k2 in standard 5-band marking)
>

I'd guess a house marking that makes it easy enough for the mfr to identify
without learning a completely new code, but could still thwart copiers?



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