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Resistor colour code table

- resistor colour code chart / table for the four band, five band and six band systems used
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Four band resistor colour code scheme
Five band resistor colour code scheme FOCUS ON WIRELESS (/TECH-
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Four band resistor colour code system https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2017/dec/

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The four band system is used for E6, E12, and E24 series values. It can accommodate values with up to two microcontroller-for-the-iot)
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The resistor colour code bands give the value of the resistor as well as other information including the tolerance
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and sometimes the temperature coefficient. The band closest to the end of the resistor body is taken to be Band 1.
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The first two bands of the resistor colour code are the significant figures of the value, and the third of the resistor
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colour code is a multiplier.
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The value is given by the first three, red violet corresponds to the significant figures, 27, and then the orange the-right-fcc-ce-compliant-wireless-
corresponds to a multiplier of 1000. This gives the value 27kΩ. The fourth band gives a tolerance of ±2%. module)

Note: If only three bands are present on the resistor, they will be the two significant figures, followed by the More Focus on Wireless (/tech-
multiplier, i.e. no tolerance band. zone/digikey/)

Five band resistor colour code system FOCUS ON TEST (/TECH-

For resistors where higher tolerances are needed, i.e. ±1% and better and for the E48, E96 and E192 series resistors ZONE/FOCUS_ON_TEST/)
where three significant figures are required, an extra digit band is included. Otherwise this resistor colour coding
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three resistor colour bands, it can be seen that the significant digits are 316, and the multiplier is 100. This gives 502083.html?
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6 band resistor colour code
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The example of the six band resistor colour code system shown in the diagram has colours of where the resistor
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colours are, orange; brown; blue; red; brown red. From the first three resistor colour bands, it can be seen that the
significant digits are 316, and the multiplier is 100. This gives 31600 or 31.6kΩ. The fifth band or ring is brown and
indicates the tolerance is 1%. The final red band indicates the temperature coefficient is 50 ppm/°K. INDUSTRY CURRENTS BLOG (/INDUSTRY-
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Resistor Colour Code Chart
The resistor colour code table or chart below summarises the different colour codes used for resistors.

COLOUR DIGITS MULTIPLIER TOLERANCE TEMP COEFFICIENT

(SIG FIGS) PPM/°K
Black 0 100
Brown 1 101 ±1% 100
Red 2 102 ±2% 50
Orange 3 103 15 Mike Logan | AndersDX
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Grey 8 108 ±0.05% Display designers should seek out solutions
White 9 109 like this letterbox type display rather than
Gold ±5% be constrained by the standard display
Silver ±10% form factors
None ±20%

The resistor colour code is used in virtually all leaded resistors with power dissipation levels up to about a watt. TRAINING COURSES (/LEARNING-TRAINING-
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