Resistor color code chart
Color coded resistors typically have four or five color bands, but there are also three and six band variants as explained here.
The three band resistors are no longer in use, and the six band types are generally high precision resistors rarely used in every day electronics.
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Color |
3 Bands: |
Band 1 Digit |
Band 2 Digit |
Band 3 Multiplier |
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| 4 Bands: |
Band 1 Digit |
Band 2 Digit |
Band 3 Multiplier |
Band 4 Tolerance |
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| 5 Bands: |
Band 1 Digit |
Band 2 Digit |
Band 3 Digit |
Band 4 Multiplier |
Band 5 Tolerance |
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| 6 Bands: |
Band 1 Digit |
Band 2 Digit |
Band 3 Digit |
Band 4 Multiplier |
Band 5 Tolerance |
Band 6 TempCo |
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| Black | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 % | 200 ppm | |
| Brown | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 % | 100 ppm | |
| Red | 2 | 2 | 2 | 100 | 2 % | 50 ppm | |
| Orange | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1k | 15 ppm | ||
| Yellow | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10k | 25 ppm | ||
| Green | 5 | 5 | 5 | 100k | 0.5 % | ||
| Blue | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1M | 0.25 % | 10 ppm | |
| Violet | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10M | 0.1 % | 5 ppm | |
| Grey | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0.01 | 1 ppm | ||
| White | 9 | 9 | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Silver | 0.01 | 10 % | |||||
| Gold | 0.1 | 5 % |
