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Do you hate blue resistors?
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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Brumby on March 22, 2020, 03:38:43 pm ---Who picked this colour?  If they wanted a blue, they could have gone for a much lighter shade, couldn't they?

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Never really had a problem with them myself, but I know that not everyone has the same eyesight. Some people would have a harder time, especially if they are color blind, even if just very slightly.

I practically never use TH resistors anymore these days anyway...
ratatax:
I find them much harder to read too

SMD's are much easier with the value written on them... but they're quite sad, I loved the 80's with so much colorful components, PCBs looked like rainbows
bd139:
All these problems can be solved with my multiple step plan for success:

1. Buy them by the hundred (I usually buy the royal ohm ones from tayda/CPC)
2. Store in properly labelled bags identified by the ones they come in.
3. Take what you need out and use it
4. When you are done or have desoldered one throw it in the bin and forget it existed.
5. If you drop one, throw it in the bin and get another one out.

You’re basically screwed these days anyway. A lot of components have useless codes on or aren’t marked (SMD) so just shrug and get used to binning them.

If you’re sly, sweep them all into a box and sell it on eBay for some other idiot to deal with. They go for good money  :-DD
hugo:

--- Quote ---What I hate is identifying them.
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why don't you use an ohmmeter then?  :-DD
 
Zero999:
The only problem I've had with identifying a blue resistor is a yellow band looked a bit more greenish, so I used 100k, rather than 1M once and I wondered why the circuit didn't work, but I've also had a similar problem with a red band looking a bit more brownish, on a brown resistor. I'm very sightly red-green colour blind which is actually a misnomer as I can tell the difference between red and green, it's more subtle shades of dark green/red and brown which I have a more difficult time with distinguishing between, than most people. I can see that this text is red and this text is green.
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