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| innkeeper:
I'm sure many of us know the NON-PC phrase used to remember the resistor color code values. Is there a good PC phrase one can use to teach others. Anything in common use? |
| JS:
A box of mixed resistors, a table and a circuit to build, or two, or three... that's how I learned! Then I went to metal film and it's a waste of time, as colors on the blue back are much worse and there are even some that could be read both ways (most starting with 1 make sense both ways so it's ugly) Now I'm going for SMD and you just read numbers, like numbers wouldn't fit in bigger packages, I guess printing in a small cylinder is hard, but diodes are done this way, who knows |O JS |
| Relayer:
--- Quote ---A box of mixed resistors, a table and a circuit to build, or two, or three... that's how I learned! --- End quote --- Same here. I used to buy the grab bags of mixed resistors from Dick Smith, Jaycar and the likes. I always had dramas with the metal-film ones as well, and at times it was really hard to determine if a band was coloured red or brown. I would really feel sorry for anyone colour-blind needing to sort out 1000 mixed metal-film resistors. |O Regards, Relayer |
| james_s:
It took the very much non-PC phrase for me to finally remember the color code. I think just the fact that it was rather offensive is what made it stick in my mind. |
| KaneTW:
I'm color-blind, so dealing with through-hole resistors is basically impossible for me. I stick with SMD in my designs anyway. |
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