Common
Resistor Color Code Questions:
Hold the
resistor with these grouped bands to your left. Always
read resistors from left to right. -
Resistors never start with a metallic band on the left. If you have a
resistor with a gold or silver band on one end, you have a 5% or 10% tolerance
resistor.
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Digits from the first colors must be multiplied with the number of this color.
- BLACK: 1.
- BROWN: 10.
- RED: 100.
- ORANGE: 1000.
- YELLOW: 10000.
- GREEN: 100000.
- BLUE: 1000000.
- GOLD: 0.1.
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Most resistors have four stripes of color. The first three stripes indicate the resistance value, and the fourth stripe indicates the tolerance. Some resistors have five stripes of color, with four representing the resistance value and the last one the tolerance.