Electronics Worksheet: Resistor Colour Code
Remember (Digit, digit, zeros): black 0 · brown 1 · red 2 · orange 3 · yellow 4 · green 5 · blue 6 · violet 7 · grey 8 · white 9. Band 1 and band 2 = two digits; band 3 = number of zeros to add. Examples: brown-black-red = 1000 Ω; yellow-violet-brown = 470 Ω; red-red-red = 2200 Ω = 2.2 kΩ.
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- 1.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 6000 Ω resistor? (a) blue-black-red (b) blue-black-orange (c) violet-blue-red (d) blue-black-brown
- 2.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, red, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 3.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 510 Ω resistor? (a) green-brown-black (b) brown-green-brown (c) green-brown-brown (d) green-brown-red
- 4.🌈 Which band is read first on a resistor? (a) any band (b) the one nearest an end (c) the widest gap (d) the gold band
- 5.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 99 Ω resistor? (a) white-white-black (b) white-white-brown (c) white-black-black (d) brown-white-black
- 6.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 7.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark an 87000 Ω resistor? (a) grey-violet-orange (b) violet-grey-orange (c) grey-violet-red (d) grey-violet-yellow
- 8.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does red stand for?
- 9.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 5400 Ω resistor? (a) green-yellow-brown (b) green-yellow-orange (c) yellow-green-red (d) green-yellow-red
- 10.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 11.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, black, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 12.🌈 A gold fourth band on a resistor means the value may be off by … (a) 0 % (b) 5 % (c) 25 % (d) 50 %
- 13.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, red, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 14.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 58000 Ω resistor? (a) grey-green-orange (b) green-grey-orange (c) green-grey-red (d) green-grey-yellow
- 15.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, grey, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 16.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 17.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, orange, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 18.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does brown stand for?
- 19.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, grey, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 20.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, brown, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 21.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, red, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 22.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, orange, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 23.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, yellow, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 24.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 25.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, blue, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 26.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 260 Ω resistor? (a) red-blue-red (b) red-blue-black (c) red-blue-brown (d) blue-red-brown
- 27.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, red, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 28.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, green, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 29.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 30.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does blue stand for?
- 31.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, red, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 32.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, blue, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 33.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does orange stand for?
- 34.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does black stand for?
- 35.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does green stand for?
- 36.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 37.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, violet, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 38.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, yellow, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 39.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does yellow stand for?
- 40.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, grey, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
Answer key
- blue-black-red
- 320
- green-brown-brown
- the one nearest an end
- white-white-black
- 6100
- grey-violet-orange
- 2
- green-yellow-red
- 4.1
- 300
- 5 %
- 620
- green-grey-orange
- 8.8
- 1.5
- 13
- 1
- 38000
- 11
- 72000
- 73000
- 440
- 5.5
- 16
- red-blue-brown
- 9.2
- 150
- 11000
- 6
- 62
- 2.6
- 3
- 0
- 5
- 6.1
- 7.7
- 940
- 4
- 28000
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