I wasn't suggesting that you had a need. I'd assumed that you posted it
for general interest. "Young bucks" might not get enough exposure to
develop the skill, there's not much through-hole these days.
Yeah, even Radio Shack would likely go under, if they didn't have a big
parent trying to grasp at cell phone provider straws to keep it 'alive'.
I considered the place 'dead' years ago. They want $40 for a friggin
HDMI cable!
Some Idiot must be at the helm of that division.
I don't think I ever committed it to memory, it just sort of happened over
time. My generation was taught the colors of the spectrum in kindergarten,
that probably helped.
They never assigned numerics though. That was definitely electronics
realm related.
Occasionally, it can help to have a printout of, say a datasheet on the
workbench. I don't have the room for a PC, that stays in my office, any
spare space gets filled with instruments. Besides, you can lay a sheet of
paper flat, and just look across. Looking up at a screen. then down, gives
me a stiff neck.
I have a PC at my bench, and a flat screen. All of our documents and
our MRP system is online, and we print assy. drawings, and the assemblers
pitch them into the shredder bin afterward. That keep folks from
building to the wrong revision, which still can and does happen. It is
possible to build from the screen, but not very conducive to the actual
logistics of the job. Floks print them out on A size, and it is even
smaller than the screen. Weird... folks are.
It's the fractional multipliers that faze most people, IME.
For sure. There are few left out there that are other than the 1% crowd
(E96), so there is not much need to know what the specialized band colors
are for higher tolerances, much less the 6 band tempco jobs.
I don't know about UK reference names. We catalog on manufacturers'
product codes and our own part numbers, in addition to value.
They call a 0.1 Ohm Resistor 0R1 IIRC. I figured that it might be
nice to have it show those values as well.
How does it decide that a value is incorrect? E192 preferred values?
I have a lookup table. I only have E96 in it though. I suppose I
should have made it a full E192 series check routine.
My bad. New revision time...
True. The damn M$ site will let me in, but the download script won't run
in my browser.
After you 'hit it' a few times and fail, it will eventually point you
at a direct DL link.
Plus I don't use or have Excel (or anything M$).
All of the templates on the site are macro free, so if Star Office has
kept up with their 'compatibility, it should work. Do they use
"VLOOKUP"?
Star
Office will do most Excel sheets, though. It was worth a try, out of
curiosity,
I actually BOUGHT that for $73 one day, in my ignorance. Was not many
months hence that they started giving it away.