[Boatanchors] Ohm Color Code Calculators

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Tue May 28 16:09:00 EDT 2024


Once upon a time, I had a bag of them. Came from the Lafayette Radio
closings. I remember taking them to hamfests but not sure if I have any
left much less where they sre in the man cave.
With today's technology who needs cardboard wheels to determine the value
of a resistor.
There's probably an AP for your phone to do that.
Here's one for your computer:
https://www.calculator.net/resistor-calculator.html
 
Pete, wa2cwa

On Tue, 28 May 2024 15:53:56 -0400 Keith Densmore <ve3gem at gmail.com>
writes:
> Back in the day, Ohmite and others used to give away color code 
> wheels that
> gave the value of a resistor if you put in the colors. Not sure what 
> they
> are called but I wonder if anyone knows if they are still available
> somewhere? I'd like to find one.
> 
> 73,
> Keith ve3gem



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