non tan-colored resistors

[Dan Jacobson]

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their blue, green
etc. bodied buddies?

 

[Stepan Novotill]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:01:29 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
wrote:

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their blue, green
etc. bodied buddies?

Most of these have an extra color stripe, so they are 1% or 2%
tolerance resistors. Some are higher quality metal film resistors etc.

 

[Stepan Novotill]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:59:22 GMT, Stepan Novotill
<snovotill@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:01:29 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org
wrote:

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their blue, green
etc. bodied buddies?

Most of these have an extra color stripe, so they are 1% or 2%
tolerance resistors. Some are higher quality metal film resistors etc.

Oh, and the green ones with silver stripe are sometimes capacitors,
especially if they are a dad thicker than resistors. Commonly found in
smoke detectors.

 

[Howard Henry Schlunder]

Those are inductors, not capacitors.

"Stepan Novotill" wrote in message
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Oh, and the green ones with silver stripe are sometimes capacitors,
especially if they are a dad thicker than resistors. Commonly found in
smoke detectors.

 

[John Popelish]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their blue, green
etc. bodied buddies?

1% resistors often have blue bodies, but odd body colors (white or
blue) sometimes imply fusible or flame proof resistors (that function
as a fuse and resistor in one package).

Green units are often inductors. If you suspect an inductor, measure
the resistance and see if it is close to what the bands code. If the
measured resistance is way less than the code, you probably have an
inductor.

http://www.epanorama.net/documents/markings/resistor_colorcodes.html

But there are lots of variations:
http://www.niccomp.com/Products/leaded/LeadedAppearance.pdf


--
John Popelish

 

[Peter Bennett]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:01:29 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
wrote:

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their blue, green
etc. bodied buddies?

Philips (now BC Components) uses different colour resistor bodies to
distinguish between different resistance material - carbon film, metal
film, etc.




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[Jim Large]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

It seems standard resistors are tan, but what are their
blue, green etc. bodied buddies?

They (the blue ones) are a pain in the ass to read. They
probably are the reason Ohm-meters were invented. The green
ones (as others have pointed out) may actually be inductors.

-- Jim L.

 

[Fred Abse]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:13:45 +0100, Stepan Novotill wrote:

if they are a dad thicker than resistors

My dad was much thicker than that.

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