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Default Resistor colours

On 2019/12/10 1:55 p.m., Cursitor Doom wrote:
Anyone else find it bizarre and inexplicable when resistor
manufacturers use coloured bodies for their resitors? The subsequent
coded bands become *far* more difficult to read.


And some of us (7-10% male, 1% female) are red/green colour challenged,
so green and brown can look the same at the best of times... I use an
ohmmeter to verify as I can't trust my colour vision.

John :-#)#