On 23/08/2019 07:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/08/2019 21:04, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:34:30 +0100, NY wrote:

I remember the mnemonic Bye Bye Rosie On You Go Birmingham By Great
Western (or Buy Better Resistors Or Your Grid Bias May Go West - Mauve
rather than Violet). There's also Bad Boys Ring Our Young Girls But
Vicky Goes Without or Bad Boys Ring Our Young Girls But Vicky Gives
Willingly (anyone know Vicky's phone number?)

The difficult part is remember which way the Black and Brown go in the
mnemonic!

Just remember it's a spectrum, so starts at black and ends in white.

Golly after years of staring at resistors I dont need no mnemonics

Components are so tiny these days that I often have difficulty telling
orange from red from brown in the tiny bands. And then you have 1% and
2% tolerance resistors so you have to work out which end to start. I
often end up using a multimeter. Life was a lot easier when resistors
were big chunky things with clearly visible bands, or the old "body tip
and dot" ones.

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Max Demian