Resistor color code for kids

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GotCoffee

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I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
 
Here's one that might work:

Barney Bear Rides On Your Green Bike Very Good Wow
As he gets older,
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well
 
On 19 Mar 2005 21:53:16 -0800, "GotCoffee" <Ray.Straub@gmail.com>
wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
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I first learned it as;

Better be right or your great big venture goes west.
 
On 19 Mar 2005 21:53:16 -0800, "GotCoffee" <Ray.Straub@gmail.com>
wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying.
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Why?

--
John Fields
 
"GotCoffee" <Ray.Straub@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
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Black
Brown
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
Grey
White

And practice.

Rather like sex... but that gives you an itchy knob.
Relationships... don't go there.

DNA

Nighty Night.
 
"GotCoffee" <Ray.Straub@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<1111297996.297840.106810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>...
I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
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Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary?

They require someone to remember the slogan, and then they have
to figure out the lookup.

"Oh, there's a red band, let me see what was the slogan, okay "r"
is the second letter, that must be a 2".

It gets worse as you deal with the higher numbers, since one has
to go through the sequence further.

You are just thinking in terms of a beginner, but in trying to
get a mnemonic you are preventing the kid from getting any better
than a beginner when it comes to color code. The mnemonic is
not about knowing the color code, it's about remember the sequence
of the numbers.

Give the kid some resistors, and a color code chart, and let him
sort the resistors. The practice of figuring out which is which
will help him to remember the code.

Then, when he sees a red band, he will immediately know it's a "2",
rather than having to do some mental lookup.

When I was a kid, I didn't even know about the famous mnemonics,
so I didn't waste time with them. I needed to know what the resistor
values were, so I naturally looked them up. And the practice meant
that I learned the code.

Michael
 
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I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,


Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary?

They require someone to remember the slogan, and then they have
to figure out the lookup.

"Oh, there's a red band, let me see what was the slogan, okay "r"
is the second letter, that must be a 2".

It gets worse as you deal with the higher numbers, since one has
to go through the sequence further.

You are just thinking in terms of a beginner, but in trying to
get a mnemonic you are preventing the kid from getting any better
than a beginner when it comes to color code. The mnemonic is
not about knowing the color code, it's about remember the sequence
of the numbers.

Give the kid some resistors, and a color code chart, and let him
sort the resistors. The practice of figuring out which is which
will help him to remember the code.

Then, when he sees a red band, he will immediately know it's a "2",
rather than having to do some mental lookup.

When I was a kid, I didn't even know about the famous mnemonics,
so I didn't waste time with them. I needed to know what the resistor
values were, so I naturally looked them up. And the practice meant
that I learned the code.

Michael
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I, for one, still rely on the "bad boys" phrase for the resistor color code.
Now that I'm older and don't use it often, it makes it easy to remember.

Also, I don't think that I would be able to remember the alphabet, either,
if I hadn't learned it by the phrase:

"All bad children do eat fowl grapes happily in just knowing little magic
nectarines own plenty quality red strawberry teacakes under Violet's wooly
xylophone's yellow zipper."

Wow. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to remember that one. Now, if I could only
remember what happened to me in the '60's.

Bob
 
I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying.
What is a more tame way of remembering the color code?
GotCoffee

:Why in the world do you think a mnemonic is necessary?
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:They require someone to remember the slogan,
:and then they have to figure out the lookup.
: Michael Black

I'm with Michael.

I say if he needs a crutch, get him a rainbow chart.
http://www.google.com/images?q=resistor+color+astate+OR+elexp+OR+mechatronics+OR+bucknell+OR+ecse-rpi

This one looks nice.
http://engr.astate.edu/circuits/resistor-code1.jpg

Once he starts thinking of values in terms of the spectrum,
it becomes duck soup to just memorize the values.
 
GotCoffee wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
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bald boys repel over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom
 
"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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GotCoffee wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,



bald boys repel over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom
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The sport is rappelling, NOT repel....
 
John Fields wrote:
On 19 Mar 2005 21:53:16 -0800, "GotCoffee" <Ray.Straub@gmail.com
wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying.

---
Why?

--
John Fields
--------------
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Because he was improperly toilet-trained, of course, like all these
red-state fundy bigots.

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public
 
"R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message news:423FAFBA.70AC@armory.com...

Fuck me, apologies for swearing.

Fuck me R. Steve Walz.

Oh bollocks, perhaps I was thinking about Mark Zenier.

Sorry, I've asked before.

I'll go away now.

DNA
 
"R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com> wrote in message news:423FAF80.3F69@armory.com...
GotCoffee wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
-------------
Only shit-asses try that, and they all find that their kid comes home
with our "bad boys rape..." anyway, because being lurid it's a shit
fucking hell of a lot more memorable, which is, of course, the reason
for the existence of a mnemonic in the first place. Trying stupid
shit-ass lameness like you propose is like trying to keep him from
discovering sex, which pursuit the only truly SICK pursuit!!

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public
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I, obviously, responded to the wrong post.

Fuck me, R. Steve Walz.

Thank you

Most enjoyable.

DNA
 
Lord Garth wrote:
"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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GotCoffee wrote:


I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,



bald boys repel over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom


The sport is rappelling, NOT repel....



OK, I'll avoid that sport also.
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bald boys rappell over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom

Tom
 
"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Lord Garth wrote:
"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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GotCoffee wrote:


I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,



bald boys repel over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom


The sport is rappelling, NOT repel....



OK, I'll avoid that sport also.

bald boys rappell over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom

Tom
Click to expand...
I used rappelling gear to service antennas some years ago. Actually, it's
quite fun!
My highest rappel was from the roof of a 27 stories building.
 
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:53:16 -0800, GotCoffee wrote:

I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?
Click to expand...
Black, Brown, Roy G. B'v, Grey, White. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 
GotCoffee wrote:
I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,
-------------
Click to expand...
Only shit-asses try that, and they all find that their kid comes home
with our "bad boys rape..." anyway, because being lurid it's a shit
fucking hell of a lot more memorable, which is, of course, the reason
for the existence of a mnemonic in the first place. Trying stupid
shit-ass lameness like you propose is like trying to keep him from
discovering sex, which pursuit the only truly SICK pursuit!!

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public
 
Lord Garth wrote:

"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Lord Garth wrote:

"Tom Woodrow" <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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GotCoffee wrote:



I remember the color code with bad boys rape ....
I want to give my 10 year old boy a different saying. What is a more
tame way of remembering the color code?

Thanks,



bald boys repel over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom


The sport is rappelling, NOT repel....




OK, I'll avoid that sport also.

bald boys rappell over yosemites granite bluffs voiding great wisdom

Tom


I used rappelling gear to service antennas some years ago. Actually, it's
quite fun!
My highest rappel was from the roof of a 27 stories building.
Click to expand...
Used to install TV antenna systems (60's) on two and three story houses
with steep pitch roofs. We were too stupid (in my teens) to wear safety
gear. Not that we even had any. Paid $1.20 an hour which was big bucks
then (living at home and all). I had more mad money then than I do now.

Tom
 
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