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Resistor Color Code - as5513482 - 08-28-2015 05:25 PM

Is any program available for the resistors color code?

RE: Resistor Color Code - TASP - 08-28-2015 05:41 PM

Bad
Boys
. . . .

RE: Resistor Color Code - striegel - 08-28-2015 07:08 PM

(08-28-2015 05:41 PM)TASP Wrote:  Bad
Boys
. . . .

Not sure if a program is necessary. I've had this memorized for decades and seldom needed it since the 80's.

Black
Brown
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
Gray
White

RE: Resistor Color Code - TechAlex - 09-06-2015 06:49 PM

(08-28-2015 05:25 PM)as5513482 Wrote:  Is any program available for the resistors color code?

When I told my wife that if I see colors I see numbers, she said that I am crazy , so I gave it up.

RE: Resistor Color Code - Didier Lachieze - 09-06-2015 07:07 PM

(09-06-2015 06:49 PM)TechAlex Wrote:  
(08-28-2015 05:25 PM)as5513482 Wrote:  Is any program available for the resistors color code?

When I told my wife that if I see colors I see numbers, she said that I am crazy , so I gave it up.

Synesthesia?

RE: Resistor Color Code - TASP - 09-07-2015 02:50 AM

After thinking about this for a while, possibly at one time I had an HP41 keyboard overlay with the appropriate colors noted in flecks of electrical tape on the top rows. And there would have been a program with User mode key assignments that went along with it.

Considering my vague memory of it, I'm thinking I might have written the code during sparky school for a classmate to use in labs. If I had used it quite a bit I think I would have a clearer recollection.

My predilection to write 'bloatware' would make me think the program probably accepted gold and silver too and computed and displayed ranges of resistance possible for the colors.

I do remember using the colored electrical tape, an oatmeal container, and some conduit to make a 'gag' giant 10,000 watt 47K resistor for one of the instructors . . .


Wink

On a slightly different view of color bands (from XKCD) - striegel - 11-19-2015 01:22 PM

(09-06-2015 06:49 PM)TechAlex Wrote:  When I told my wife that if I see colors I see numbers, she said that I am crazy , so I gave it up.

http://xkcd.com/1604/
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RE: Resistor Color Code - Etienne Victoria - 11-19-2015 03:46 PM

I use the "program" in the attached picture.

It never fails :-)

[Image: IMG_20151119_163814.jpg]

RE: Resistor Color Code - DrD - 11-19-2015 04:27 PM

Etienne Victoria:

There have been updates to your "program." (For 5 and 6 band color codes).

RE: Resistor Color Code - Vtile - 11-20-2015 12:51 PM

(08-28-2015 05:25 PM)as5513482 Wrote:  Is any program available for the resistors color code?

I don't know. Also I don't know about kneejerk reactions of others, but I would suggest you program one for your own. It is one of the most simplistic programs to do, where you just replace the color with a number and have 3 .. 5 meanings depending the place the color is. It doesn't need to be pretty, but fast to use.

Here is the one of the most advanced resistor programs ever invented. http://tower-freshmanphysics.wikispaces.com/file/view/resistor-color-code-all.gif/183691533/resistor-color-code-all.gif You can use it to make your own for prime. Later you can extend the program to calculate series and parallel resistors based on E-series etc.

Only that it is much quicker to read them naturally than using converter, but I assume resistor color coding is losing its importance these days when everything starts to be surface mounted circuitry. ?

Later on one should note that the resistor with only resistance is the ideal (=school book) case, real world resistors have also reactance (resistor have inner capacitance/capacitor and inductance/coil in parallel depending the construction of it) making it reactive and introducing a frequency dependency for it. In other words calculations are made in complex domain when frequency dependancy is critical. Hopefully I translated the "tances" correctly.

RE: Resistor Color Code - Etienne Victoria - 11-20-2015 02:09 PM

(11-19-2015 04:27 PM)DrD Wrote:  Etienne Victoria:

There have been updates to your "program." (For 5 and 6 band color codes).

You're right !! This is outright unacceptable !

I will demand a firmware update to the manufacturer ASAP :-)

Cheers

Etienne