Gday, I'm wondering if there's any good websites or apps that are good for things like ohms law, resistor colour codes and things like that? Because whilst I do sort of understand the concepts, I'm not very good at the maths side of it. Any links would be appreciated.
Cheers, Gab
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Back in the 70's I was taught this resistor color code and I still remember it..
Bad
Beer
Rots
Our
Young
Guts
But
Vodka
Goes
Well
Last edited by Johnno; 02-11-20 at 10:03 AM.
OSIRUS (02-11-20)
My Memoir was a little more racy
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
Learnt that in 1959 at the PMG Technicians Training School in Adelaide.
Sorry for leaving out yellow.
Last edited by gordonwh40; 04-11-20 at 03:26 PM.
Johnno (04-11-20)
LOL.. I noticed that too... Old Farts.. /jk
lol...it's funny seeing that, and recalling oneself saying the same thing when young, to those elders which one has now become, and then when one gets here you flip it around, and joke about young whipper-snappers =^)
A tiny jingle for you old mate, that still roams my head;
"green bar green, orange bar blue
blue bar orange, brown bar brown"
Wrt resistor colour codes, there's lot of trivia that has transmogrified IRL, into freelance rework jobs that have hit my bench over years passed -- example:
trivia = which 4, 5 and 6 band colour coded resistor values, read the same if read back to front?
which resistor values, are most commonly mistaken for being read back to front, and being used in place of the correct value?
which resistor colour code values, are most commonly misread due to bad pigments and observer's eye colour acuity?
IRL = 1000s of PCBs over the years that don't work post wave-soldering, due to 1 or 2 resistors of the wrong value having been stuffed into the PCBs, usually 2 resistors in swapped locations. I should say to the above, some resistor markings are worse than others, when it comes to the contrast of the background colour (resistor body) and the colour/tint of the bands themselves. These jobs were nice little earners back in the thru-hole days =)
shit, I guess I'm just lazy & use my Ohm meter to determine the resistance value.
I have found some that are out of spec according to their colour value; so stopped relying on that.
Cheers, Tiny
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