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|   | Subject: Edited Guide Writing Workshop: A80510582 - Resistor Color Code
Posted Jan 30, 2011 by geekguy42 | | Post: 1
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Entry: Resistor Color Code - A80510582
Author: geekguy42 - U14767604
Here it is.
Thatīs only part of the code.
As far as I can remember, there are four bands. Two of them give you the digits. The third gives the power of 10. The fourth uses different colours and represents tolerance. I canīt remember the details. You should provide an example.
|  | Subject: A80510582 - Resistor Color Code
Posted Jan 30, 2011 by geekguy42
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Ya. But i thought it the third was a multiplier. Ill look into that thankyou
Hi.
Number seven is normally called violet.
Then there is a mnemonic to learn. Something like this. Billy Brown Rocks Only Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.
Bands one and two are numbers, band three is multiplier.
Band four is tolerance and can be Silver, 10 percent, Gold 5 percent.
You can also find brown or red as the fourth band. Brown is one percent and red is two percent tolerance. On some resistors, you may also find a fifth, salmon band. This indicates high stability.
So, band one brown, band two black, band three red, band four brown, band five salmon equals a one kilo-ohm resistor with one percent tolerance and high stability.
(Day job, as was!)
GT
We could make this n interesting entry, if you want collaberation.
I can supply some data reference how resistances are calculated, it you wish!
GT
>>Billy Brown Rocks Only Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly
GT, I can tell you that there is no way in hell that such a sexist/misogynistic mnemonic will get into the EG.
See this discussion (so I don't have to go into it again  ):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alaba...d=5854185&skip=0&show=200#p68786426
Geekguy, sorry, that doesn't have anything to do with your entry, but I may as well say it up front if you go ahead with the writing.
Kea, I agree that such a mnemonic will not be included in the Guide. I disagree that there is a difference between 'politically incorrect' and 'grossly offensive'. That's what politically incorrect means - it means that something is grossly offensive to at least some people.
I see the term 'politically incorrect' being used as a tool to dismiss very real concerns about serious prejudice. It also gets used for very light things. Anyway, I didn't really want to get into it again, there's a pretty good discussion about the issues in that thread.
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