At 23:08 10/14/99 , Sean Birkner wrote:

>Actually, if I remember my schooling correctly brown-green-black-black-red
>would be 1500 (1.5k) ohms +/- 5%. BR-G-BL-BL = 1500, the red at the end is
>either +/- 5% or +/- 10% tolerance.

Hi Sean -- I'm accustomed to standard US commercial resistor codes (1st
sig, 2nd sig, multiplier, tolerance) and this scheme doesn't fit -- 150
ohms should be BR-G-BR.  I do know, however, that it's a 150 ohm resistor,
both by spec and by test.

> >  The next one up might very well be coded red-red-black and have a value of
> >  22 ohms;
>
>R-R-BL would be 220 ohms.

In the regular scheme this would be 22 ohms: R=2, R=2, BL=no zeros (Brown
would be one zero).  Again, this particular resistor actually measures 22
ohms.  However it shows a white band in the fourth place, which I don't
recognize -- I know 20%=no band, 10%=silver, 5%=gold.

cheers
david
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