Why is silver band in the middle of these 5 band resistors ?

[lordvader88]

I'm looking at 2 low value resistors that look wire wound around a 2W pink ceramic-finish looking resistor

Colors to numbers are
52silver41 or 14silver25 ?
52silver21 or 12silver25 ?

So why's silver in the middle ? All the other 5 band resistors I have aren't like that

[Canis Dirus Leidy]

Most likely this is not a silver, but a white. The values of 14.9 and 12.9 kOhm exactly meet the E192 series.

[Twoflower]

My wild guess would be that's not the correct answer ans a 2W E192 series doesn't match. Maybe in metrology, but I doubt that this is here the case. Also as Lorvader88 claims to be low resistance.

Can you take a decent picture of them and what device they came from?

[bitwelder]

If the resistors are really low value as you guess, you should be able to measure them decently even if they connected to a circuit.
Have you tried that?

[glarsson]

Silver in a band used as multiplier indicates x0.01.
Does 0.14 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K and 0.12 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K make sense?

[Brumby]

Silver in a band used as multiplier indicates x0.01.

This was my first suspicion as well.

Does 0.14 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K and 0.12 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K make sense?

I'll second this.

If the resistors are really low value as you guess, you should be able to measure them decently even if they connected to a circuit.
Have you tried that?

Please do this and let us know.

Even in circuit, the answer will be helpful.

[lordvader88]

Silver in a band used as multiplier indicates x0.01.
Does 0.14 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K and 0.12 ohm +/-2% 20ppm/K make sense?

Yeah silver for 0.01x for sure,

The 52silv21 reads as 0.20 or 0.27, it moves a lot. There r 2 in parallel are between negative of a 4pin rectifier, and GND-ref of the tank cap, for almost everything else HS on a CX600W SMPS.

the 52sil41 started at 0.60 and quickly dropped to 0.02 and shorting my BM869 gave 0.03 atm.

Could they be inductors ? There are beefy NTC thermistors or something right before the main tank cap, IDK maybe it's more inrush current limiting ?