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Subject:Re: Relay PICS (18, 53, 167, Generic)
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:56:45 -0500

At 08:04 PM 2/6/2013, neil n wrote:
>Each of these has what appears to be a resistor. With DMM probes at 85
>and 86 of each, meter set to 200 Ohm scale, I saw around 60 - 70 Ohms.
>I don't know how the coil figures into that value.

Yes, those all appear to be European resistors.  US and Japanese
general-use film resistors normally have beige epoxy overdip and a
four-band code where the fourth is gold for 5% tolerance (silver for
10 and no band for 20, which essentially doesn't exist in film
resistors).  First two are significant figures and the third is a multiplier.

In US practice small axial-lead inductors usually have an
aqua-colored body, but it's usually molded.

Yrs,
d