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4 Band Resistor Calculator

Calculate the resistance of a 4 band resistor

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Sullins Connectors
5 Band 1st Digit 6 Band 2nd Digit Multiplier Tolerance

Wire-to-board interconnection options from Sullins feature a wide range of sizes and applications

Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White Gold Silver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

x1 x10 x100 x1K x10K x100K x1M x10M x100M x1G 10 100 5% 10% 1% 2% 3% 4% 0.5% 0.25% 0.10% 0.05%

MCC Voltage Suppressors

MCCs TVS series high-power suppressors protect sensitive components from voltage spikes and transients

Outputs Resistance: 5.60k ohms Tolerance: 5%

Introduction
A resistor is a perhaps the most common building block used in circuits. Resistors come in many shapes and sizes this tool is used to decode information for color banded axial lead resistors.

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4 Band Description
The number of bands is important because the decoding changes based upon the number of color bands. There are three common types: 4 band, 5 band, and 6 band resistors. For the 4 band resistor: Band 1 First significant digit. Band 2 Second significant digit Band 3 Multiplier Band 4 Tolerance

Resistance Value
The first 4 bands make up the resistance nominal value. The first 2 bands make up the significant digits where: black 0 brown 1 red 2

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The 3rd band or multiplier band is color coded as follows: black x1 brown x10 red x100 orange x1K yellow x10K green x100K blue x1M violet x10M grey x100M white x1G gold .1 silver .01 An example of a resistance value is: band 1 = orange = 3, band 2 = yellow = 4, band 3 = blue = 1M value = 34*1M = 34 Mohm
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Resistance Tolerance
The fourth band is the tolerance and represents the worst case variation one might expect from the nominal value. The color code for tolerance is as follows: brown 1% red 2% orange 3% yellow 4% green .5% blue .25% violet .1% gray .05% gold 5% silver 10% An example calculating the range of a resistor value is: If the nominal value was 345 Ohm and the 4th band of the resistor was gold (5%) the value range would be nominal +/- 5% = 32.3 to 35.7

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