"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:13:56 -0600, wrote:

According to this chart (and others like it), One Ohm is black -black -
black...

No, that is not correct. Notice that the fourth band says
"multiplier".

The chart shows four bands plus tolerance, which means three digits
plus a multiplier, plus tolerance.

You multiply the first three bands with the multiplier value. Since
the three first bands in your example are all zero, you must multiply
zero by one ohm, which is still zero.

An easy way to remember how the multiplier band works, is to think of
it as "number of zeroes".

While it does say multiplier, it is not the traditional 'multiply any
number by zero and you get zero. It is more like the number of zeros to
put at the end. That is why a red red black is 22 ohms and not zero
ohms.

"multiplier" is a bit misleading - specifically its the number of zeros that
follow the preceding group of numerical digits.