On 12/10/19 3:55 PM, 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.


Don't get out much do you?
Allen Bradly, and most other carbon composition resistor
manufacturers used a brown composition body.
When film resistors started to become popular, they had
white bodies.
The only other color I've seen is a dull red, Usually on 2%
resistors.

Of course, wire wound resistors had colors all over the
map. But then they had the values printed on them. No color
code.


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