Reply to:     RE>>Info Request

>Jammer Six wrote:

>> >B B R O Y G B V G W G S [N][sic]
dmooney wrote:
>Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White Gold Silver

>This is from the list of resistor color code stripes used to determine
>resistance in ohms visually. The Gold / Silver are for tolerance bands - I
>think a Gold stripe means +/-1%, a Silver stripe means +/-5% and No stripe
>means the resistor is supposed to be good to +/-10% of stated value.
>If you throw the "N" on the end of the letter string (for "No tolerance
>stripe") the following mnemonic is useful for remembering the whole deal:

>Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls. Get Some Now.
                                              ////But      Violet   Gives   
Willingly////
Steve

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