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,
Kevin Luxford wrote:
The discussion on the RF Choke Question prompts me to observe that not
only are component body colours apparently at the whim of the
manufacturer, but that some of the body colours chosen seem to make it
very hard to read the bands. Is this band yellow or is it orange? Or
The discussion on the RF Choke Question prompts me to observe that not
only are component body colours apparently at the whim of the
manufacturer, but that some of the body colours chosen seem to make it
very hard to read the bands. Is this band yellow or is it orange? Or
is it brown? Blue b
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