I too am colorblind (red-green) and have always had trouble reading
resistor values. In the "good old days", reading the colors was
difficult, but the XYL (or my mother when I was younger) was usually
around to help. They would tell me a 33K resistor was "brown, orange,
brown, orange, brown, orange, brown, silver (hi). Nowadays, I can't ask
the XYL anymore because, while she can still see colors perfectly, her
visual acuity has gotten worse, as has mine. They may have large print
books, but I haven't seen many "large print" resistors these days (1/2
-2 Watt). I too thank Elecraft for presorting the resistors. It saved
me lots of time and possibly a mistake or two.
John AA0VE
Fred Jensen wrote:
Ever considered that you might be colorblind? :-) Just kidding, but I
am a monochromie, although I didn't really know it until I got to
college. I'd figured out I was having a hard time distinguishing the
color bands on the big molded caps and carbon resistors when I was a
teenage ham [they were much bigger then], but everyone (and I) just
put it off to bad light.
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