Hi All,
I am an electronics newbie, so please be gentle with me! I am trying to make up a circuit as described on a web site. All it requires is a couple of connectors, a transistor, a resistor and a chip. It is the resistor I am having problems with. It is supposed to be a 100K resistor. I bought one at Maplin for the pricey sum of 9p. But I wanted to check that it was the correct one, so I used my meter on it. It has 5 bands: brown, black, black, black, brown. According to my meter, on the 200 scale, it says 100. On the 200K scale it says 0.1. surely this must not be the correct resistor (I would have expected to see 100 on the 200K scale not 0.1). I looked at the Maplin web site and found a picture of the resistor I bought and it says it is a 100K resistor - at this point I got confused.
Can someone please help me. What 5 coloured bands should I see on a
100K resistor.Thanks in advance to any willing helpers.
Regards