Resistor Color Code Guide Electrical and （指导电气和电阻颜色代码）.pdfVIP

Resistor Color Code Guide Note: I took this chart off of the web. In my experience, the tolerance band is NOT usually separated from the other bands as shown here. The most common tolerances for resistors marked this way are 5% and 10% though, and the gold and silver bands cannot be anything other than a tolerance, so no ambiguity results. If there is any ambiguity, you are supposed to read starting with the bar closest to an end. Finally, when in doubt; measure! Notes on reading component values: There are lots of different ways to mark the values on components. Most resistors use the color code and are fairly straightforward, but there are some exceptions. The most common are resistors marked RN55153J, or something similar. The ‘RN’ part of the number is fixed, the next two digits (55 in this example) indicate the power rating, the next three digits represent the value. The first two are the value to two significant digits, the third is the number of zeros to add at the end. Therefore, in this example, the resistor is 15 kohms. The letter (or letters) after the digits are the tolerance, temperature coefficient and so on. Potentiometers are usually marked with three digits, interpreted just like the 3-digit value of the RN55 resistor example given above. There may or may not be letters before and/or after the digits. Like resistors, capacitors are generally manufactured with values to two significant digits. Also, small capacitors for general purposes usually have practical values greater than 1 pf and less than 1 µf. As a result, a useful convention has developed in reading capacitance values. If a capacitor is marked 47, its value is 47 pf. If it is marked .047, its value is .047 µf. Thus, whole numbers express capacitance values in picofarads while decimal fractions express values in microfarads. Any capacitor manufactured with a value of 1 µf or greater is physically large enough to be clearly marked with its actual va