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Second, simply join the two (or three for 5-band) significant digits and multiply them by the value of the multiplier. Do the same for the third (fourth for 5-band) color band, which represents the multiplier or the number of zeroes. So, to determine the value and to calculate the upper and lower limits of the resistance, it would go like this:įirst, identify the first and second color band (include the third color band for 5-band resistors) and locate their values in the table above.
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Here’s a table that I copied from our laboratory manual. In a 5-band resistor, the third color band becomes an additional significant digit of the resistance, the fourth being the multiplier, and the last band, or the forever alone band, is the percent tolerance of the resistance. While the forever alone band is the percent tolerance of the resistance. The third color band is the multiplier, or the number of zeroes.
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Next is to know the use of each color band in the resistor.Īs you can see from the image above, in a 4-band resistor, the first and second color bands are the significant digit of the resistance. We’ll call this band, the forever alone band. I don’t know about the first band, but the last band can be identified as the color band that is farther from the other color bands. The first step is to confirm which is the first and the last color band, or the start and the end of the resistor. The resistance value of this kind of resistors is determined by the color bands found in the body of the component and their sequence.