Resistor Codes
Resistors values are coded with colored stripes. The stripes are weighted to one end of the resistor. That is the end to start from. The first to stripes are digits, the third is a multipler and the fourth the tolerance of the resistor.
| Code | Digit | Multiplier | |
| BLACK | 0 | 1 | |
| BROWN | 1 | 10 | |
| RED | 2 | 100 | |
| ORANGE | 3 | 1,000 | (1K) |
| YELLOW | 4 | 10,000 | (10K) |
| GREEN | 5 | 100,000 | (100K) |
| BLUE | 6 | 1,000,000 | (1M) |
| VIOLET | 7 | 10,000,000 | (10M) |
| GREY | 8 | ||
| WHITE | 9 | ||
| GOLD | 5% | ||
| SILVER | 10% |
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