[Elecraft] Resistor Color Code Guide

[EricJ]

Well, we went through ways the military taught code practice. Here's how the
military taught me to remember the color code including tolerance:

Bad   Boys  Rape Our    Young  Girls But  Violet Gives Willingly for Gold
Silver or Nothing

Black Brown Red  Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray  White          5%
10%       20%

I've remembered it for 43 years. And that's the clean one.

Eric
KE6US



-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of W3FPR - Don Wilhelm
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:11 PM
To: Richard Thorne; elecraft
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Resistor Color Code Guide

Rich,

My 8 year old grandson grasped the resistor/capacitor color code in about 15
minutes of sorting resistors.  Buy one of those resistor 'grab-bags' and
sort them - when you are finished, you should have a good recall of the
color code.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I'm slowly but surely gathering the tools and such so I'll have every 
> thing necessary to build a K2.
>
> I remember in my earlier ham days that I had a little chart from 
> RadioShack.  You dialed up the colors in the correct order and it gave 
> you the value of the resistor.  It may come in handy during the build.
>
> I don't think RadioShack carries these any longer, per a quick phone 
> call I just made.  Are there any other sources for something like this?
>
>


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