[Elecraft] Component Body Colours

[John R. Lonigro]

I too am colorblind (red-green) and have always had trouble reading 
resistor values.  In the "good old days", reading the colors was 
difficult, but the XYL (or my mother when I was younger) was usually 
around to help.  They would tell me a 33K resistor was "brown, orange, 
brown, orange, brown, orange, brown, silver (hi).  Nowadays, I can't ask 
the XYL anymore because, while she can still see colors perfectly, her 
visual acuity has gotten worse, as has mine.  They may have large print 
books, but I haven't seen many "large print" resistors these days (1/2 
-2 Watt).  I too thank Elecraft for presorting the resistors.  It saved 
me lots of time and possibly a mistake or two.

John AA0VE

Fred Jensen wrote:
>
> Ever considered that you might be colorblind?  :-) Just kidding, but I 
> am a monochromie, although I didn't really know it until I got to 
> college.  I'd figured out I was having a hard time distinguishing the 
> color bands on the big molded caps and carbon resistors when I was a 
> teenage ham [they were much bigger then], but everyone (and I) just 
> put it off to bad light.
>