(silver)
(gold)
black
brown
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
grey
white
(gold)
(silver)
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@Felthry I have no idea what this is
I'm gonna guess resistors
@socks yeah, resistor color code. also used for inductors, sometimes, but you don't see those very often
used to be used for certain capacitors too but not anymore
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@Felthry I got a few resistors with my Arduino kit and, no joke, I seriously can't tell the colours apart
I'm not colourblind or anything, they're just tiny and some are very similar to each other
@socks yeah it's often really hard to tell apart blue and purple on a metal film resistor, or orange and red and brown on a carbon-composition resistor, because of the dyes they use in conjunction with the resistor's body color
we often have to fall back on our knowledge of what the E12 series values are and that's not really a good thing
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@socks (E12 values are the preferred values for 10% resistors and the most common ones available for 5% and 1% ones too, they're
1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 2.2, 2.7, 3.3, 3.9, 4.7, 5.6, 6.8, 8.2
of those, the most common ones are the E6 values,
1.0, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.8
which are nominally for 20% tolerance devices
oops now i'm rambling
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@socks E12 actually doesn't quite cover the whole decade since they're rounded to two digits, there's a little gap between 1.2+10% (1.32) and 1.5-10% (1.35)
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