Hi BEN.

04-May-03 06:31:39, BEN RITCHEY wrote to JASEN BETTS


 BR> * An ongoing debate between Jasen Betts and Ben Ritchey rages on
 BR> ...

 BR>>> none 20%    Silver 10%  Gold 5%    Red 2%     - Tolerance 4th
 BR>>> Band JB: >  Brown 1%

 BR> The last batch of 1% resistors I ordered had 3 significant and a
 BR> multiplier,
 but no tol but thanks for the note. fyi, military (commonly called
 BR> milspec) grade resistors are supposed to use 5 bands and may very
 BR> well have brown for 1%, though I can't very this. [:-)

I have some 5-band 1% resistors here, they came from junk and now reside in
a fix i made to my cheap VOM after it saw 600v while on the 10v range the
bands are "brown black black brown BROWN" (the last band is slightly wider)
which makes them them 1K resistors.

I have also seen 5 band 2% resistors,

The third band has always been black. (so 4 bands would have been sufficient)


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