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The document discusses resistor color codes and how to determine resistor values from the colored bands. It explains that resistor color codes use bands of standardized colors to indicate the resistance value, multiplier, and tolerance. As an example, it analyzes a 4-band resistor with colors of green, blue, red, and gold, determining the value is 5600 ohms with a tolerance of 5%. It concludes the color code method is useful when a multimeter is not available to directly measure resistor values.

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Measure Lap, Exp 3

The document discusses resistor color codes and how to determine resistor values from the colored bands. It explains that resistor color codes use bands of standardized colors to indicate the resistance value, multiplier, and tolerance. As an example, it analyzes a 4-band resistor with colors of green, blue, red, and gold, determining the value is 5600 ohms with a tolerance of 5%. It concludes the color code method is useful when a multimeter is not available to directly measure resistor values.

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Elmergib University

College of Engineering / Department of Electrical and computer


Engineering

Measurement Lab

Experiment No 3

Group : 3

Subject: Resistor Color Code Calculator

Name: Alrashid Hassan Ahmed


Number: 3117272

Determining Resistor Values From The Color Code


How Does the Resistor Color Code Work?
The color code is given by several bands. Together they specify the resistance value, the
tolerance, and sometimes the reliability or failure rate. The number of bands varies from
three to six. At a minimum, two bands indicate the resistance value and one band serves
as multiplier. The resistance values are standardized; these values are called preferred
values.

Resistor Color Code Chart

4 band resistor
For example

The four band color code is the most common variation.


These resistors have two bands for the resistance value, one multiplier and one
tolerance band.
In the example shown here, the 4 bands are green, blue, red and gold.
By using the color code chart, one finds that green stands for 5 and blue for 6. The third
band is the multiplier, with red representing a multiplier value of 2 (10^2). Therefore,
the value of this resistor is 56 ×10^2 = 5600 Ω.
The gold band means that the resistor has a tolerance of 5% (0.05).
0.05 × 5600 = 280
So that
Max value = 5600 + 280 = 5880 Ω.
Min value = 5600 – 280 = 5320 Ω.
The resistance value range therefore between 5320 and 5880 Ω (5560 ± 5%).

Conclusion
We usually resort to using this method ( Resistor Color Code ) when a multimeter is not
available to measure the values of the resistors.
Also, this method helps many service providers to know the range of the resistors
"maximum value - minimum value", And many other benefits.

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