How to read resistor color codes the easy way. And a bonus tip as well.
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@lignitedaze3 жыл бұрын
I'm convinced many teachers go out of their way to make tutorials as dense and confusing as possible. Thankfully you don't: this has been the simplest, most logical key to unlocking the archaic Value Code of the Resistor that I've yet to encounter. Thanks for relieving the pain in my newbie head. Good stuff!
@warplanner8852 Жыл бұрын
Spectrum: ROY G. BIV preceded by black and then brown then followed by the Torrance band of silver (10%) or gold (5%).. And God curse the genius who decided blue colored and 5-band coding was a good idea!
@Dr.Pepper0014 жыл бұрын
In Marine Corps electronics school we learned the following ditty to learn the color codes: Bad boys ravage our young girls but Violet gives willingly...get some now. I am 73 and learned this in 1965 when I was 19. It has stuck with me all the years.
@deaddiver37682 жыл бұрын
Same in the USN except for the ravage. We called it something else
@marshalcarter789310 ай бұрын
That’s exactly the ditty I was taught. My teacher was retired Air Force.
@reduce1115 күн бұрын
I just want to express my gratitude in the first 5 minutes you made something so complicated a piece of cake we need more of you in the world . thanks again
@MrCarlsonsLab13 күн бұрын
You are so welcome!
@iyogi2Ай бұрын
Thank you. Clear instruction without a bunch of music is superb. Thank you again.
@choimdachoim94913 жыл бұрын
There is no way to express the gratitude I feel from your simplification of this subject matter.
@JoeKing67.5 жыл бұрын
Wow, it's fascinating how something so complex and difficult could be so easy when explained or taught right,you are amazing, thank you very much for all the info.
@stevieboi61 Жыл бұрын
im just learning and vloggers like u making quality vids easy to learn and understand are very much appreciated. thankyou for your time, effort and sharing.
@MrCarlsonsLab Жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
@sand00778 жыл бұрын
Wish I had you as my electronics instructor way back when. You make understanding and clarifying electronics considerably!
@Marv95903 жыл бұрын
In 2020 I put together a kit form of a calculator which as a function for resistors. The colours are at the bottom of the number keys. You key them in from the resistor colour bars and it gives you the value. Great for me :) You videos are very informative Mr Carlson, thanks very much :)
@edwardhugus27725 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I remember reading resistors a long time ago, and remembered the rhyme in my head and the tolerance band, I think I had forgotten about 3rd band gold = above 1 ohm and silver below. Tha is for jogging my old memory!
@NAVYABHAN5 жыл бұрын
I love the way you explain the color code chart! I used to do Business Machine Repair in High School, and the Color Chart was something I needed to brush up on. "Thank You Very Much!"
@JohnnyUtah156 жыл бұрын
Came by to refresh my memory on resistor color codes. Thank you, very helpful. I had electronics/electricity class in high school back during my Junior (1984-85) and Senior ('85-'86) years, 3 hours/day and 2 hours/day respectively. I remembered the mnemonic but forgot some of the details. Enjoyed reading a schematic and making a pictorial diagram then making a PCB with paint and acid. First project: continuity tester
@kellyvb98816 жыл бұрын
GREAT, Never knew how to read caps untill today. Thanks Mr. C
@jeffb61618 жыл бұрын
Paul this is a great easy way of learning, I always get the meter out to test because I thought this would be to hard to memorize. thank you, MR Mioggi !!!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+jeff b Any time Jeff! Glad you enjoyed.
@luoychau74415 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking to make this video. Each time I look a resistor I just give up on it, now I begin to see how it works.
@SpeakingArrow4 жыл бұрын
Tnx for this overview I been ham for 35 yrs and never understood this just used chart. Wish I had known. Thank you!
@bensonwafula86785 жыл бұрын
Indeed thumbs up Paul for the wonder full insight on reading resistor color codes. Never thought it was that easy...
@petercunningham40005 жыл бұрын
I have just found this video (21/02/19) and I want to thank you for taking the time to explain and make it easy for us to better understand resistor (and mica caps) colour code. I have subbed you channel as I am interested in, but have only a basic knowledge of electronics,- especially the solid state stuff. So, Thank You for taking the time to do this. Greetings from Australia.
@MrCarlsonsLab5 жыл бұрын
Welcome Peter!
@rm7094 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! Great video, easy to understand and concise. Nice work- very appreciated!
@angelitocarolinebanagudosl40775 жыл бұрын
after watching other videos. i just learned how to read the resistor the easiest way on your video. thank you.
@djberg34835 жыл бұрын
As a newbie to electronics, this is a great source of knowledge, thank you taking the time to make these vids.
@pufango40592 жыл бұрын
Excellent , used your method of testing transistors (divide the transistor into two diodes ) works a treat ! Many thanks.
@alexiecolon26193 жыл бұрын
All my life I was wondering why the colors on these resistors thank you very much mr Carlson for blessing us with these videos
@jb1219938 жыл бұрын
Wonderful advice! I'm starting to learn this as a hobby and that short-cut helps me feel less of a dummy!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@supyrow8 жыл бұрын
wow, I remember learning my color code from Forest Mims' books. The Domino part was extremely valuable to me, BIG Thanks! I won't forget it!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+su pyrow Glad you enjoyed, your welcome!
@SimonsSolarShed3 жыл бұрын
Mr Carlson.you are a legend I'm taking my intermediate ham radio exam Sept 6 2020 and will need to know this in order to pass and thanks to you and the elegantly explained way you work out the values of resistors,its made far easier to understand and digest.thank you so much and keep up the good work you are doing educating those who are interested in electronics.i have watched you're videos for years and learning all the time.best regards to you mr carlson.73 for now ;)
@MrCarlsonsLab3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind comment!
@cornhuskbag8 жыл бұрын
Incredibly simple! Loving these videos!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
@melainejuergens57965 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking time out of your day for this!
@ElectronicTonic1568 жыл бұрын
I took a college EE lab course in which all of the used quarter-watt resistors were thrown into a box at the end of each lab period. At the end of the semester, I acquired this wadded mass of thousands of resistors for my own use. During the process of organizing all of them, I managed to drill into my head both the color code and the E24 series. This video was helpful because I had always thought of gold and silver multipliers as x0.1 and x0.01 - exactly as they are stated on a color code chart. It's certainly more intuitive to think in terms of "over 1 ohm" and "under 1 ohm". No mental math needed.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Eric Wasatonic That's a great way to learn resistor color codes. Many years ago, an old TV tech gave me thousands of brand new carbon comp resistors in a box. I dumped them out on the kitchen table and sorted every one to a marked bin with drawers. After that, at a mere glance, I could recognize all the values. Sounds like we have done things somewhat similar. Glad you enjoyed the video Eric! Always look forward to your video's as well.
@lawrencemiller38296 жыл бұрын
I memorized the color code resistors salvaging discarded 1950~1970's TV and radio sets as a hobby.
@krystleandaleon15185 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@mauriciandara77745 жыл бұрын
for 60 years i feared learning basic electronics and you made it so easy i thank you . well keep it up share your knowlege
@Gvideoscom6 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad i found your channel...well explained!
@johncunningham54358 жыл бұрын
Nice demonstration to keep me on my toes Paul; yes! I did pass, some habits never leave, particularly when you remain active in the field.
@TRXLab8 жыл бұрын
Great Tech Tip on color codes Paul!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+TRXBench Thanks Peter!
@MrHans8185 жыл бұрын
I just ran across this on 9-13-2018 and found very interesting. my mother was an electronics technician first with Bendix Radio in Towson Md starting in the middle 40s where she built her first television. She told me it never had a cabinet, just the chassis and the picture tube. Being born in 1955, I don't remember ever seeing it. In the middle 50s she started at Westinghouse Aerospace outside of Baltimore.When I was an early teen my mother taught me some of what you are talking about here but I was more worried about playing ball. What a huge loss for me. I she was smarter than I gave her credit for. That's not even getting into the vacuum tubes. In this day in age most people take it for granted that you turn on the radio and it plays ext. I find it amazing the genius that it took just invent any of this stuff. Thanks you for helping understand how to read the resistor again.
@MrCarlsonsLab5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your story MrHans!
@nonyabidness72076 жыл бұрын
So far, the best explanation I have found.
@12DGJB218 жыл бұрын
Outstanding refresher! Thank you for yet another excellent Tech Tip Tuesday.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+XT500C Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for the kind words too!
@K1ZEK8 жыл бұрын
You always make your videos fun to watch even though I made my first radio repair work bench out of a old wooden door in the attic of my family's home over 60 yrs ago. TKS 73 Leo
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+K1ZEK Glad you enjoyed the video Leo!
@clairsmyers35714 жыл бұрын
I agree with this video. Your way of reading low value resistors does eliminate the need to know that when gold is the multiplier, you multiply by .1 and when it is silver, you multiply by .01. This way that you are doing it makes it much faster indeed. Thanks for the tip.
@bernardonokohwemu1428 Жыл бұрын
Great easy to understand and follow teaching. Thanks. Glad to subscribe.
@AThreeDogNight6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making the best explained video that I have seen as of yet on the resistors, capacitors codes. It finally all clicked after watching this, thanks again, Tom.
@MrCarlsonsLab6 жыл бұрын
You're Welcome Thomas!
@scottsauritch32162 ай бұрын
Oh thank goodness, thank you so much this is an excellent tutorial! I've been watching through like 20 videos and none have explained from the beginning for people who don't know what they're doing! Like how do you even know which end to start from! Like for me that actual calculations is very straightforward just which end is the beginning?! I kept getting: "start with the first band"!??!? On some types in how to read resistor tutorial you got to teach them how to read a resistor from the beginning, I just don't understand how some people missed the necessity of that..!
@Mauitaoist3 жыл бұрын
Gosh mr. Carlson, thank you, I used to think it must be complicated and I had to use one of those little wheels thingies or read a chart every time... but it isn't, you made it simple, thank you
@MrCarlsonsLab3 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome!
@silasfatchett56938 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about the 'below 10 ohms' codes. This little bit of knowledge is a nice 71st birthday present. Thank you very much.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Silas Fatchett Glad you enjoyed Silas. Happy Birthday!
@eugenetheodore29564 жыл бұрын
Great video......reading resistors made really easy!
@troyadams49943 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much I am learning circuitry and soldering later then I would have liked to but I'm trying to do it now and what you just shared is amazing and it is definitely move me forward as far as building my own service again thank you
@takeflite67997 жыл бұрын
Hi I've just found your Chanel and watched many of your videos, just wanted to say a big thank you for turning a complicated subject into plain English. I'm a last able to get a grasp on the subject. Where many other videos and books have left me more confused after reading/watching them 👍🏽
@gregnissen39508 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the refresher on what I forgot many years ago! Thanks for all the very interesting videos.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+greg nissen Your welcome Greg!
@SimonsSolarShed5 жыл бұрын
Love you're videos Mr carlson.very helpful indeed.
@davidooch4 жыл бұрын
This method made it so much easier thank you.
@harindugamlath8 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for these vids. Your tutorials and tips are super clear and perfect! Always enjoy them!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Harindu Gamlath Your welcome Harindu!
@6h4715 жыл бұрын
New subscriber here. Thanks so much for your videos. I've learned a lot watching them, I think possibly enough to start restoring my old RCA cathedral battery radio.
@mamschannel34214 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this very helpful lesson. Now I know how to read color codes. I salute you sir! :)
@ayonabdullah1467 жыл бұрын
This video, to be honest, helped me a lot. Thanks a lot man. I really appreciate it.
@apttabrasil16964 жыл бұрын
Very good lesson Mr. Paul. Thank you a lot. Carlos from Brasil
@zachariahpeterson45009 ай бұрын
I just got into robotics and manufacturing and you made something that looks so hard become so easy.
@FireguyNtx6 жыл бұрын
Never knew there were a 3 band color code. Always great stuff, thanks.
@chadwalker88595 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal instructional video, thank you!!
@edzmactv72714 жыл бұрын
This way i learned it..Thank u for step by step explanations..thumbs up!!
@wadehicks92708 жыл бұрын
I repaired TVS for years I had heart surgery a few years ago that caused me some unreal memory loss your videos are very helpful Mr Carlson thanks for sharing.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+wade hicks Glad to help wade! Sorry to read about your memory loss.
@cassvirgillo33958 жыл бұрын
Hey Mr. Carlson, Thankyou, very clear and concise explanation of color code. You took any mystery out determining values. Take care, C.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Cass Virgillo Glad this helped Cass!
@MrMac51508 жыл бұрын
*The best teacher in town*
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+MrMac5150 Thanks for the kind words MrMac!
@MrMac51508 жыл бұрын
Mr Carlson's Lab True words.
@OldMatesBackyardTech7 жыл бұрын
G'day. As a subscriber to your channel, i enjoy your videos. But also, having done my electronics course 16yrs ago, watching the videos like this one, and the capacitor video have helped me remember all my electronic fundamentals again.
@MrCarlsonsLab7 жыл бұрын
Glad your enjoying the video's!
@hamidsalman24763 жыл бұрын
Your videos are great and extremely informative. Thank you
@larrybud2 жыл бұрын
My issue isn't figuring it out from the colors, but those blue mica resistors make it incredibly difficult to actually see WHAT the colors are. Whoever came up with that idea should be fired! (why not a white resistor?)
@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE4 жыл бұрын
As a returning ham, this was good revision for me, thank-you.
@MrCarlsonsLab4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@laohantun74045 жыл бұрын
Your lab looks so great...how I wish I can set up like that......so cool....
@jonbudy4 жыл бұрын
Very good free lesson! Thank you.
@Tnapvrvideo5 жыл бұрын
Superbly done!!!
@goodbyebluesky57704 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another easy to digest video!
@keithshreve67367 жыл бұрын
Best explaination yet. Thanks
@fishmut5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video thank you this is a lot of help I’m just starting with electronics so learning what I can . The basics is were I’m at right now but really enjoying learning ,
@vc33824 жыл бұрын
Very useful lesson , thank you for this.
@cast3905 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, You've made this so easy to understand,thanks (subbed)
@AMStationEngineer8 жыл бұрын
For the first time since the early 1930's, "Ms. Violet" is breathing a sigh of relief!! Very informative, an excellent primer which should help those in the repair field, and those working through instruction in electronics. I've been working with those darn mica caps since '74, and believe me, this will help, many thanks!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+AMStationEngineer Thanks for the kind words!
@EdWatts8 жыл бұрын
+AMStationEngineer I used to do a morning drive time show on an AM station (AM 1620!). I had to quit, though, because every time I drove under a bridge I lost my voice. (The first sentence is true; the second...?)
@AMStationEngineer8 жыл бұрын
EdWatts Mr Carlson's Lab Yes, but the "hometown nature" of AM radio stations makes up for the noisy nature of AM. In a few years, unfortunately, all radio will be satellite, and totally non-terrestrial.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
That will be a sad day!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Hey Ed, The reason you lost your voice is, you need more family members in the car with you on that morning drive....... That way there would be a few more Watts available :^) ... See what I did there.
@tony123456789fuck4 жыл бұрын
Attention to detail, as always best on explaining
@catw0rld8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the informative videos! I used to dabble in tube type shortwave and audio amp repair myself. I never tried to tackle solid state stuff (like a multimeter?!) but you make that look so easy I'm going to dust off my old equipment and give something a try. (too bad I threw out a broken Ross multiband a few years back, I'd love to have that one working like it did back in the day) Your presentation is excellent, and you make difficult concepts easy to follow, you have quite the talent as an educator. I enjoy your videos so much I'm thinking 'who needs cable TV?' Seriously. I've watched maybe a total of 2 hours of TV over the last few months, and that out of sheer boredom. (American Pickers and Antiques Road Show) I've could easily spend10 times that watching your videos, in fact I plan on it! :) I wish this internet thing was around when my 2 boys were growing up. They'd know a thing or two by now....
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words! Glad your enjoying the channel.
@skycarl8 жыл бұрын
Really good info,,, thanks as always. Carl
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+skycarl Your Welcome Carl!
@CHIBA280CRV7 жыл бұрын
Excellent useful videos 👍🏻
@ciprianciprian52287 жыл бұрын
You are doing an amazing job. I like how you explain everything on every single video. Like "Ray Hindle" said, liked and subscribed. Thanks!
@MrCarlsonsLab7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you're enjoying!
@waseemsattar93704 жыл бұрын
great lesson from Mr Carlsons
@DeLewrh5 жыл бұрын
this made it so clear, I hated working out their values. many MANY thanks
@materialsguy20028 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Paul!
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Shaun Merrigan Your welcome Shaun!
@robertcalkjr.83258 жыл бұрын
Nice tip Paul, thanks. I've never seen one of those domino styled caps before.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Robert Calk Jr. Glad you enjoyed Robert!
@craneoperator48 жыл бұрын
I used to know this back in the late 70s thank you for the refresher course...love all your videos
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+craneoperator4 So neat to read all the "memory lane stories!" Thanks for your comment.
@craneoperator48 жыл бұрын
Mr Carlson's Lab can you do a video or answer how to find out what the volts are after seeing what the values of the resistors and domino caps?
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Many domino style caps don't have that information on them, so if one is faulty, I replace it with a standard 500 Volt 1% modern Mica cap. Or.... I really like NPO-C0G, thats:C Zero G capacitors.
@Flaco-ip7cl4 жыл бұрын
I just screen shot your color code picture and I cropped it..thanks for the lesson
@buddyboy19535 жыл бұрын
Great, just a great video !! I learned a lot from watching this lecture, and I subscribed to your channel !!!
@ham4ham718 жыл бұрын
A special thank you to Mr. Carlson for all his videos and all the time spent in doing them. I have expertise in software for 30 years but normally don't get to experience electronics and in the good video representation Paul can do it in. I want to let you and everyone know that you have made a difference in my understandings and on a business perspective a more dangerous competitor. (Not against you of course).Paul this is going to be the similar message as Peter gets as he wakes up but I assure you it has exact equal meaning.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Ham4Ham Thanks for your comment!
@GamersMedia27236 жыл бұрын
Great man very good trick and advice to remember I appreciate that thanks
@douglasquaid14188 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much ! Now its so easy to read restistor codes ! Thank you !
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
Your welcome!
@muzmuzaffamuz84214 жыл бұрын
Great very informative and helpful salute you for the great lesson
@Automationacademytv4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your video it helps my channel grow and push me make more, Good Job
@wellusee4 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed very useful ......Well done.
@angshusarma19085 жыл бұрын
You being a great help to me. Thank You Sir
@tobuslieven6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, I get it now. Thanks Mr Carlson : )
@aboyd1447 жыл бұрын
That was very informative! Thanks!
@redemptusrenatus53368 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for the tech tip, somehow this just made more sense to my brain and I'm glad I watched. Now if I could only find a wad of miscellaneous resistors to separate into marked bins for practice, I'd be set :)
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+Redemptus Renatus Glad you enjoyed! Ham swap meets are a great place to find assorted piles of resistors.
@magnuswootton61812 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Now I'm a bit more experienced I need to probably need read these resistors properly, I can compare them for similarity but I need to know them exact. thanks alot.
@brickscratch8 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that really helped me to understand. Gold & silver multipliers always had me in doubt, Cheers Mr C.
@MrCarlsonsLab8 жыл бұрын
+brickscratch Glad you enjoyed!
@brickscratch8 жыл бұрын
+Mr Carlson's Lab I do appreciate your clear explanations :)
@Jeffrey3141594 жыл бұрын
I have a very old used Mica capacitor(condenser) that is leftover from my late father's box of stuff he had from his days as an apprentice for RCA. It is small deep brown brick - - and following your instructions I read it as 410 picoFarads with a 2% tolerance rating. The paint on the colored dots has worn off so it is hard to read. The Cx on my multimeter indicates ~400 picoFarads. The colored dot pattern looks like Yel Brn Blk Red - - following the directions you described here