G
Guest
- Jan 1, 1970
- 0
I don't have any difficulty remembering the resistor color code. Many
people do, however. While working for a company about a dozen years ago
I had planned to create some color labels for the resistor drawers in
the company proto lab. The lab drawers were a random mess of values, and
it would require a big effort to clean up the chaos. I left the task for
a rainy day.
Not long after, however, I decided to move my own collection of
resistors from a multi-bin container to a set of drawers. I created the
color labels that I had intended to use for work and labeled the
drawers. That was about 10 years ago. I still have the drawers, but the
labels have, after a decade, faded. So I decided to relabel the drawers.
The color labels make it really easy to confirm resistor values when
putting components into the drawers.
I created several .pdf files of the "24" series (5%) and they are here
for anyone who may find them useful.
Got to: http://www.usbmicro.com/odn/index.html and scroll down to the
"Misc Applications" section and pick the article called "resistor drawer
labels". The seven .pdf files are there. The article has a picture of
the old and new labels. If your drawers use only 12 values per decade,
then disregard the odd labels.
I hope that this is useful to someone. The colorful drawers certainly
brighten my lab.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
As a side note I have a label on the side of each drawer that lists the
1% resistor values. This isn't in color (no need for that much work).
The 1% values are in the drawers in labeled 2" by 3" bags, while the 5%
values are loose in the drawer. This has served me well.
-Rob
www.usbmicro.com
people do, however. While working for a company about a dozen years ago
I had planned to create some color labels for the resistor drawers in
the company proto lab. The lab drawers were a random mess of values, and
it would require a big effort to clean up the chaos. I left the task for
a rainy day.
Not long after, however, I decided to move my own collection of
resistors from a multi-bin container to a set of drawers. I created the
color labels that I had intended to use for work and labeled the
drawers. That was about 10 years ago. I still have the drawers, but the
labels have, after a decade, faded. So I decided to relabel the drawers.
The color labels make it really easy to confirm resistor values when
putting components into the drawers.
I created several .pdf files of the "24" series (5%) and they are here
for anyone who may find them useful.
Got to: http://www.usbmicro.com/odn/index.html and scroll down to the
"Misc Applications" section and pick the article called "resistor drawer
labels". The seven .pdf files are there. The article has a picture of
the old and new labels. If your drawers use only 12 values per decade,
then disregard the odd labels.
I hope that this is useful to someone. The colorful drawers certainly
brighten my lab.
As a side note I have a label on the side of each drawer that lists the
1% resistor values. This isn't in color (no need for that much work).
The 1% values are in the drawers in labeled 2" by 3" bags, while the 5%
values are loose in the drawer. This has served me well.
-Rob
www.usbmicro.com