Hi there,
I'm trying to learn about electronics, mainly for soldering purposes and I can't seem to understand the resistors colour code system, on this webpage here http://www.doctronics.co.uk/resistor.htm it states that this is the numbering system,
Number Colour
0 black
1 brown
2 red
3 orange
4 yellow
5 green
6 blue
7 violet
8 grey
9 white
you supposedly work out resistors like this, let's say you have a resistor with brown, black and red colour bands it would go, 1 for brown, 0 for black, and then add two noughts for the red (it's a multiplier), so you'd be left with 1000...correct? ..so then you take off the noughts again, and you'd have a 10K resistor, however...in one of my soldering kits it has a brown, black and red resistor yet it's referred to as a 1K resistor, instead of 10K like some different resistors in my book, does that mean that the manual is wrong? or the 0 isn't counted as a number? I can't seem to understand
2007-06-29
20:02:34
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