{"id":52,"date":"2018-06-11T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/?p=52"},"modified":"2018-06-11T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T21:07:26","slug":"electrical-applications-resistor-color-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Electrical Applications, Resistor Color Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you identify a resistors value if you don&#8217;t have a multimeter available?<\/p>\n<p>Each resistor has a band of colors. These bands identify the value in \u03a9 as well as the tolerance (change in value) of the resistor.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate things, resistors have different numbers of bands. The table below describes the bands and how to calculate the reis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resistor_color_codes_chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resistor_color_codes_chart-278x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resistor_color_codes_chart-278x300.png 278w, http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resistor_color_codes_chart.png 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.resistorguide.com\/resistor-color-code\/<\/p>\n<p>Digi-Key have a useful website that allows you to enter the colors and it will calculate the value for you.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.digikey.com\/en\/resources\/conversion-calculators\/conversion-calculator-resistor-color-code-4-band<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you identify a resistors value if you don&#8217;t have a multimeter available? Each resistor has a band of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical-applications","category-tsa-ms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}