10k or 120ohm Resistor Help

[mattpas]

I have some metal film resistors and I can't tell if they are 10k or 120ohm.
Both have the same band colors:
100ohm is brown red black black brown
10k is brown black black red brown
How can I test them?

[Minion]

Get a $10 DMM and test them that way...You really should have a DMM if you are doing any electronics projects because it is Nearly impossible to troubleshoot a curcuit without one , It is about as essential as a soldering iron....

Peace out!!!

[ambulancevoice]

10k Brn-Blk-Blk-Red-Brn
thats the 5 band metal film res code for 10k

120R Brn-Red-Blk-Blk-Brn
thats the 5 band metal film res code for 120ohm

[mattpas]

Get a $10 DMM and test them that way...You really should have a DMM if you are doing any electronics projects because it is Nearly impossible to troubleshoot a curcuit without one , It is about as essential as a soldering iron....

Peace out!!!

Thanks,
I have a multimeter so do I put the neg on one end and the pos on the other or just the pos and then to a ground?

[Minion]

You set your Multimeter to Resistance and then connect each lead of the multimeter to each end of the resistor and it will tell you the resistance....

[bipedal]

mattpas -

When checking resistance values with a multimeter, you don't have to worry about connecting the + and - probes to certain sides of the resistor -- it won't matter.  Just touch one probe to one resistor lead and the other probe to the other lead...

[slacker]

I don't know if it's any help but on most of the 5 band resistors I've got the tolerance band has a noticeably bigger gap between it and the next band than the others. So you can normally tell which way to read them from that.