Help reading 5-band resistor?

The trick I learned was bad(black 0 boys (brown 1), rape (red 2) our (orange 3), young (yellow 4), girls (green 5), but (blue 6), Violet (7) gives (grey 8), willingly (white 9).

For the tolerance bands get (gold 5%) some (silver 10%), now (none 20%).

This was long before political correctness existed and the few women in engineering had to "just live with it".

So that's 28 followed by 7 zeros, or 280,000,000.

Here's a good description

and here's a website that decodes them for you.

Poor me, I had to use a little cardboard thing. :-)

Either you meter is way off, you are reading it wrongly, or the resistor has really changed with age. 280m ohms is just about right.

Geoff.

I figured that was probably closer to reality so I salvaged up a 100 ohm and a 39 ohm resistor and put them in parallel to get 28 ohms and the 1x ohms scale is reading close to normal.

Thanks!

It seems the 5 and 6 band codes are different than the 4.

Here's a correct caclculator:

Geoff.

Or this free app from Schematica.

I'm okay with the normal bands but always screw up the gold/silver multipliers -- and the tolerance bands? Fuggedaboudit.

Thanks Geoff. I bookmarked it.