Translation - RE: [Elecraft] Color code help?

[Tony Morgan]

Wish I'd known sooner.
Smoked a couple of resistors using my mini butane torch trying to read 
the colors!
:-D

Tony W7GO

Darwin, Keith wrote:
> Torch - that would be "flashlight" for all us Americans.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> - Keith KD1E - 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ron_w
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:57 AM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] Color code help?
>
> Hi,
>       I just made a discovery today that might help others having
> difficulty identifying color code bands on resistors and the
> like...especially if you aren't working in natural lighting conditions.
> Go buy one of those dinky LED torches and shine that on the
> resistors....it makes the colors *really* stand out......far more so
> than a "normal" torch.
> FWIW
> Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW
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