[Elecraft] OT: Color code memory aid ...

[EricJ]

...for gold, silver or nothing.

Just adding the 5, 10 and 20% tolerance colors.

Eric KE6US


On 6/15/2018 5:25 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> >From the distant past ...
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> Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly ...
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> 73!
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> K0PP
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> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 18:13 Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
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>> OK, cool!  I'd like to see it work.  While I have a lot of respect for
>> design folk, and especially those who design the super easy websites to
>> use where you find what you need, do it, leave, and your coffee is still
>> hot, the Mech E's who can visualize in 3D with motion astound me.  I
>> understand the multiple reels of feedstock.  It's the "remove the parts
>> from the tape" part that I find hard, that tape was really sticky. [:-)
>>
>> Every time I've asked my wife to tell me the colors on a resistor, even
>> after I tell her, "They're all supposed to be preschool colors," I still
>> get, "Well, sort of reddish-orange ... might be a little pink too."
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>>
>> On 6/15/2018 4:43 PM, GaryK9GS wrote:
>>> Hi Fred,
>>> It's called a sequencer.  Individual reels of tape and reel axial parts
>> are loaded in the sequencer.  So there would be an entire reel of 10k
>> resistors, a separate reel of 100k, separate reel of diodes, etc.
>>> The sequencer then removes the parts from the tape and creates a new
>> tape with the parts in the proper order and count.  The sequencer my
>> company used to have would also measure the value of the part and reject it
>> if it wasn't in the tolerance window.
>>> I hope that all makes sense...
>>> Surface mount is oh so much easier.  We have 9 surface mount lines and
>> rarely use the axial through hole inserter these days.
>>
>>
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