by Beyond » Fri May 30, 2014 12:55 am
Chris Peterson wrote:Beyond wrote:I went to a technical school to be an electrician. We didn't bother with colors all that much, mostly just black, white and red, unless we were doing something with resistors.
The old carbon resistors, that were helpfully color coded with a variety of subtle variations on brown?
Black, white, brown, tan, gold, orange, blue yellow, green, violet, red, were some of the colors. As I remember, the body of the resistor was brown, so a different shade of brown was used when the brown value was called for. The guys in the electronics shop were way more used to them then us guys in the electrical shop.
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="Beyond"]I went to a technical school to be an electrician. We didn't bother with colors all that much, mostly just black, white and red, unless we were doing something with resistors.[/quote]
The old carbon resistors, that were helpfully color coded with a variety of subtle variations on brown?[/quote]
Black, white, brown, tan, gold, orange, blue yellow, green, violet, red, were some of the colors. As I remember, the body of the resistor was brown, so a different shade of brown was used when the brown value was called for. The guys in the electronics shop were way more used to them then us guys in the electrical shop.