This makes my life easier!

[skiraly017]

Thought I'd share -

Graphical Resistance Calculator

[pi22seven]

I use that thing every time I do a project. If I ever really start DIYing for real I'm gonna have to learn the code.

[JimRayden]

I used to use that in the very beginning. Now I read resistors like English.

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Jimbo

[MartyMart]

http://samengstrom.com/elec/resistor/6band.html

Here's the four/five and six band version, which I use all the time !!
( just for safety of course  )

Marty.

[TryingToDo613]

Go to radio shack and buy a 99cent pack of resistors. it has a nice little card that you can quickly look up anything. I use it all the time, and you don't have to be online or at a computer. -ph

[phaeton]

Hey, that's handy!

Many many years ago i used to actually be able to read the bands and stuff, just like all the pros.  Except these days I can't distinguish certain colors anymore   I confuse black and violet, and red, orange and brown all look the same unless they're right next to one another.  I don't even see the yellow, and the white bands are very faint.  I don't know if you can develop color-blindness later in life or if it's a lighting thing, or what.

I just measure them now.

[gaussmarkov]

joe davisson has one that works in reverse:  give the value and it gives you the bands.  see his EMH.