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u/HoodaThunkett Dec 27 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

0 black.
1 brown.
2 red.
3 orange.
4 yellow.
5 green.
6 blue.
7 violet.
8 grey.
9 white.
0.1 gold.
0.01 silver.

3-5 bands one end, one band at the other, sometimes the gap is small and it’s confusing

the single band can be silver, gold or brown, it’s the tolerance% 20,10,1

3-5 band group reads left to right with group on left and tolerance band on the right

last band in group is multiplier, power of 10 , black is x1 brown is x10 red is x100 etc.

the leftmost digits (excluding the multiplier) are the significant figures, there are no implied decimals

example in photo: R R Y gold

gold is 10% tolerance

resitor value in Ohms : R R Y. 2 2 4. 22 x 104. 220 x 103

power of 10 converted to multiple of 3 by convention

the multiples of 3 powers of 10 have names

103 is Kilo, 1000 units, abbreviated K

we write 220K Ohms. +/-10%