Breadboard gurus question?

[greaser_au]

Learning to read the colour code on resistors just happens over time. After a suprisingly short period, you start recognising common values and seeing patterns, e.g. 1k = brown/black/RED, 10k = brown/black/ORANGE, 100k = brown/black/YELLOW. However, this unconcious learning only seems to apply to those four band, cream-bodied 5%. I still have to get out the multimeter for blue resistors.

When I was working in the factory, I found I did not read the colour bands so as much as recognise the value (like reading the words 'and' & 'the') - one gets to learn these with a little experience there aren't that many values after all  - 12 or 24 per decade is usual in the commercial sphere.

david