Trouble identifying a value

[Pscylo]

May have been better of in beginners, but since it's an attempted repair (not critical equipment just to see if I can), I thought I would ask here.


The attached is ostensibly a resistor (not seen a green one that I can remember, but still, marked as R "something" on the board). MM shows it as low resistance, but I can't make much sense of the colour bands. The first and last are either white or grey (or one white one grey etc), the middle are red, silver and gold. I can't seem to match this up to the various charts available for resistors (or for axial inductors for that matter). For resistors, I can't position gold and sivler as adjacent bands in those positions and for inductors, five band would indicate military standard and require silver to start which I don't have.

Anyway, I'm guessing I'm being dim, so would appreciate some assistance.

Thanks.

[wraper]

0.91 ohm, 5%. This is 3 band value marking. 4th band is tolerance. 5th band is manufacturer specific, could mean resistor type and some other things.

[Deathwish]

.92 ohms 5%

[Andy Watson]

If you consider the first band to be grey rather than white you would have 0.82 - which is a preferred value.

[wraper]

.92 ohms 5%

Such (standard) value does not exist.

If you consider the first band to be grey rather than white you would have 0.82 - which is a preferred value.

From the picture, for me first band looks almost certainly white, second band is obviously brown, not red unless I'm daltonic.

[mij59]

1.8 Ohms fusible

[Pscylo]

From the picture, for me first band looks almost certainly white, second band is obviously brown, not red unless I'm daltonic.
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Second band could indeed be brown, but the white/grey issue is less clear cut. They certainly appear to be different colours at each end of the component dending on orientation and thickness of paint; if it weren't for that perceived difference and the presence of two bands of a similar coilour I would probably book either one as white individually. Either way I guess I know it's around 0.82 to 0.92 which is precise enough I think. My meter makes it 1.1Ohm though I don't know how accurate the meter is.

Thanks all.

[wraper]

but the white/grey issue is less clear cut.

Grey bands on resistors are much darker. Not some kind of light grey.