Resistor color code for kids

Here's one that might work:

Barney Bear Rides On Your Green Bike Very Good Wow As he gets older, Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well

I first learned it as;

Better be right or your great big venture goes west.

Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary?

They require someone to remember the slogan, and then they have to figure out the lookup.

"Oh, there's a red band, let me see what was the slogan, okay "r" is the second letter, that must be a 2".

It gets worse as you deal with the higher numbers, since one has to go through the sequence further.

You are just thinking in terms of a beginner, but in trying to get a mnemonic you are preventing the kid from getting any better than a beginner when it comes to color code. The mnemonic is not about knowing the color code, it's about remember the sequence of the numbers.

Give the kid some resistors, and a color code chart, and let him sort the resistors. The practice of figuring out which is which will help him to remember the code.

Then, when he sees a red band, he will immediately know it's a "2", rather than having to do some mental lookup.

When I was a kid, I didn't even know about the famous mnemonics, so I didn't waste time with them. I needed to know what the resistor values were, so I naturally looked them up. And the practice meant that I learned the code.

Michael

Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

And practice.

Rather like sex... but that gives you an itchy knob. Relationships... don't go there.

DNA

Nighty Night.

I, for one, still rely on the "bad boys" phrase for the resistor color code. Now that I'm older and don't use it often, it makes it easy to remember.

Also, I don't think that I would be able to remember the alphabet, either, if I hadn't learned it by the phrase:

"All bad children do eat fowl grapes happily in just knowing little magic nectarines own plenty quality red strawberry teacakes under Violet's wooly xylophone's yellow zipper."

Wow. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to remember that one. Now, if I could only remember what happened to me in the '60's.

Bob

:Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary? :They require someone to remember the slogan, :and then they have to figure out the lookup. : Michael Black

I'm with Michael.

I say if he needs a crutch, get him a rainbow chart.

This one looks nice.

Once he starts thinking of values in terms of the spectrum, it becomes duck soup to just memorize the values.

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The sport is rappelling, NOT repel....

------------- Only shit-asses try that, and they all find that their kid comes home with our "bad boys rape..." anyway, because being lurid it's a shit f****ng hell of a lot more memorable, which is, of course, the reason for the existence of a mnemonic in the first place. Trying stupid shit-ass lameness like you propose is like trying to keep him from discovering sex, which pursuit the only truly SICK pursuit!!

-Steve

-------------- Because he was improperly toilet-trained, of course, like all these red-state fundy bigots.

-Steve

Fuck me, apologies for swearing.

Fuck me R. Steve Walz.

Oh bollocks, perhaps I was thinking about Mark Zenier.

Sorry, I've asked before.

I'll go away now.

DNA

I, obviously, responded to the wrong post.

Fuck me, R. Steve Walz.

Thank you

Most enjoyable.

DNA

OK, I'll avoid that sport also.

bald boys rappell over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom

Tom

Used to install TV antenna systems (60's) on two and three story houses with steep pitch roofs. We were too stupid (in my teens) to wear safety gear. Not that we even had any. Paid $1.20 an hour which was big bucks then (living at home and all). I had more mad money then than I do now.

Tom

Black, Brown, Roy G. B'v, Grey, White. :-)

Cheers! Rich

I used rappelling gear to service antennas some years ago. Actually, it's quite fun! My highest rappel was from the roof of a 27 stories building.