# Resistor code help **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 22, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116 "2023-04-22T10:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/1 "2023-04-22T10:33:20Z")
My colour blindnes has got me stumped, this resistor was on a strip with 7k written on it. It measures more like 6.9k so could be a commo.6.8k The 7K could be my writing a couple of years ago. Anyone confirm for me šŸ™‚ ![DSC_9711](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/3X/f/2/f2f1cee603ae8297ba9c2016cf9b563b3fda9f6c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/2 "2023-04-22T10:45:53Z")
to me ( left to right ) itā€™s either (Blue/Violet) (Violet/Blue) (Grey/Green) 67ā€¦ 76ā€¦ Unless itā€™s 5 band not 6 Better Pic. (sort of) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/3X/4/f/4f19428677d72b098825bfb27a720ae32ecbca5d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![analogoutput](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/analogoutput/32/29663_2.png) [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/3 "2023-04-22T11:26:02Z")
Iā€™d say definitely blue and maybe green then brown black for a 6.8k. Iā€™d also say itā€™s what the multimeter reads and not what the stripes are that matters. From 6.8k to 6.9k is a 1.5% difference, or 3% from 6.8k to 7.0k. Close enough for your application? ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/4 "2023-04-22T12:01:54Z")
Handed it to the wife. She gave up after I told here there was not more than one shade of brown. šŸ™‚ ā€¦ Perhaps I need a brand with it written Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£ . It defo must have been me in the early days that wrote 7K, itā€™s what the cheap multi component says when I test them today. But tested on the multi meter ( which I thought I had done as itā€™s my normal practice when unsure ) and that came back with 6.8K. Itā€™s on the 3360 circuit so the tolerance would probably have been more than good enough even if they were some random 7K thing. I spent about 4 hrs two weeks ago going through 90% of a pile of dropped randoms with the meter, a colleague did ask why I did not just bin them!!! Thanks for the reply, at least you and my wife have confirmed that even with colour vision itā€™s not easy. Cheers Rob ---
**Author:** ![SCGator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@SCGator](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/SCGator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/5 "2023-04-22T14:31:19Z")
Look like blue, grey, black, brown, brown to me. So, 6.8k. ---
**Author:** ![irregularshed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/irregularshed/32/30374_2.png) [@irregularshed](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/irregularshed)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/6 "2023-04-22T21:07:34Z")
My eyesight has never been good enough to read the colour bands, so Iā€™ve relied on multimeters of increasing quality over the years. Despite being teeny tiny things I really appreciate the numbers on surface mount resistors and some capacitors, because I can focus well enough with a magnifier or my phone camera to know what Iā€™m looking at šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 4:35am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/7 "2023-04-23T04:35:08Z")
Begs the question, where is my Fluke I should have at home? I bought my son his own cheap meter last year for his 18th, so where on earth is my good one? ---
**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/8 "2023-04-23T20:47:07Z")
Missing kit invariably turns up in the last project i tidied away. Picture its last use in your head. ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/9 "2023-04-23T20:52:49Z")
Missing kit is either where my wife last decided to randomly hide it, or where my 18yr old decided to leave it. Itā€™s not often I misplace somethingā€¦ well A set of parcel scales got attached to a parcel I was sending and ended up at the parcel shop for 6 weeks. I bought a new set after struggling to find them, I lost a socket set extension bar in 2001, the socket set was stolen from the garage in a break in in 2002 and i found the lost extension in August 2007 sitting in the lower lip of the garage door just as I cleared out the last things whilst moving houseā€¦ Oh the fluke has turned up, the 18yr old had it in the garageā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Dave](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/10 "2023-04-24T19:46:28Z")
> [@twinturbo](#): > > Oh the fluke has turned up, the 18yr old had it in the garageā€¦ Maybe for his 19th, buy yourself a new meter and give him the fluke šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/11 "2023-04-24T19:59:47Z")
He got a new meter for his 18th šŸ˜‰ just never returned mine. ---
**Author:** ![Swirv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/swirv/32/26090_2.png) [@Swirv](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Swirv)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/12 "2024-03-29T18:55:09Z")
hopped on this topic for a resistor questionanswer yall would know i ordered 10k-1w by mistake instead if 1/4w does it even matter for a common kosmo tinterer? ---
**Author:** ![analogoutput](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/analogoutput/32/29663_2.png) [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/13 "2024-03-29T19:10:06Z")
Theyā€™ll be physically larger and may need kluging to fit PCB footprints or stripboard layouts but will work fine electrically. ---
**Author:** ![Swirv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/swirv/32/26090_2.png) [@Swirv](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Swirv)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/14 "2024-03-29T21:23:46Z")
yes they are bigger and i can work with that no prob thanks for the verification, rock on šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![Gasboss775](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/gasboss775/32/26802_2.png) [@Gasboss775](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Gasboss775)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/15 "2024-03-31T08:52:34Z")
These blue background resistors are notoriously difficult to read, though Im pretty sure its five band blue-grey-black-brown brown So it would be 6K8 +/- 1%, though it measures outwith 1%, so either your meter is out of calibration or the resistor is a cheap knock off and not the claimed +/- 1% ---
**Author:** ![analogoutput](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/analogoutput/32/29663_2.png) [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/16 "2024-03-31T12:12:57Z")
> [@Gasboss775](#): > > These blue background resistors are notoriously difficult to read I found a way to make it way easier ![PXL_20240331_121014865](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/3X/6/5/652228acde25a7b978f4cc3a5e530f5f9e08fb9e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/17 "2024-04-04T11:28:42Z")
I dropped have another pile of 50+ resistors to gradeā€¦ I should just stop being cheap and buy new šŸ™‚ Rob ---
**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/resistor-code-help/6116/18 "2024-04-05T09:29:27Z")
When my kids grew and flew I realized that I needed to keep several magnifying tools on me and my workbench. This includes a wireless microscope camera pen linked to my phone ( a modified zit tool I got for Ā£10) I have also added NFC tags to three tools that need a screen. These activate the viewer on my phone. Enjoy