Resistor Color Codes, Chart, Resistance Calculator Why resistor color codes? Circular banded components are visible from all directions and angles while. ... Standard 5% resistor values. Standard 5% ...

A search for a more intuitive way is what led to his alternate cheat sheet for resistor color codes. Color code references typically have a reader think of a 560 kΩ resistor as 56 * 10 kΩ, but ...

Fold your own resistor value colour wheel. Thanks to reader Alan Metcalfe for bringing this to Gadget Master's attention. He describes it as "a simple Mr Spock circular (resistor) calculator, to ...