The resistor color code chart is always nice to have on hand, so I included that. Tolerance is one thing I just don’t have memorized (except for the gold 5% band, of course).

A resistor has 4 or 5 color codes generally, of which the last color code indicates the tolerance and the rest gives the actual value of the resistor. This code does not look into the tolerance. The ...

Some people look at a venerable resource like resistor color code charts and see something tried and true, but to [Andrew Jeddeloh], there’s room for improvement. A search for a more intuitiv… ...