Comments on: Resistors 1: Description

By: Charle Fenech

Charle Fenech — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:07:31 +0000

hi. Does 2.2M equal 2,000,000plus200,000? Thanks

By: ed van der meulen

ed van der meulen — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:24:04 +0000

tolerances are for precision when needed that precision. Like for measure instruments. Or signal instruments.

By: ed van der meulen

ed van der meulen — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:21:42 +0000

the character letters of the rings on resisters to remind:

Buffalo Bill rode on yellow grass, but visited Guernsey White =
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

By: Ram Prasad.C

Ram Prasad.C — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:08:14 +0000

B.B.ROY leaves in Great Britain has a Very Good Wife

from the above take out capitals for resistor color coding:

B-black-0,
B-brown-1,
R-Red-2,
O-Orange-3,
Y-Yellow-4,
G-Green-5,
B-Blue-6,
V-Violet-7,
G-Grey-8,
W-White-9

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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:41:36 +0000

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By: gaussmarkov

gaussmarkov — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:40:32 +0000

Greigoroth,

Thanks! If you ever have a suggestion, please make it. This is a good one!

For most purchases, the difference between 5% and 1% is actually the type of resistor. Metal film usually comes with a 1% tolerance and carbon film usually comes with a 5% tolerance. And the cases are different colours, blue for metal film and tan for carbon film.

I am no expert, but R.G. is and on Aron’s diystompboxes forum he said here that metal film has slightly lower noise but the difference is not usually audible in stompboxes. So that’s what I go by.

Cheers, Paul

By: Greigoroth

Greigoroth — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:37:00 +0000

Great page Paul! Good info and nice layout as well

What about discussing 5% or 1% resistors and when you may need one or the other? This is something I don’t get (yet!)

By: Audioguy

Audioguy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:07:25 +0000

Fantastic, thanks!

By: gaussmarkov

gaussmarkov — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:30:24 +0000

Audioguy,

Thanks for the suggestion. Download the gm-lbr.zip again and you will find a new 3mm resistor package in gm-resistors.lbr.

Cheers!

By: Audioguy

Audioguy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:26:51 +0000

I’ve been using the 1/8 watt size resisters lately and I love them! I don’t suppose you have any plans to add that size to your Eagle library?
Currently I use one of the resistors standing on end from your library, but that tends to get hard to work with.

Check out the specs: http://www.koaspeer.com/pdfs/res46.pdf
they are the CFS1/4

Thanks for all of your hard work!