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 7500 Ω resistor? (a) violet-green-brown (b) violet-green-orange (c) green-violet-red (d) violet-green-red
- 2.🌈 Which band is read first on a resistor? (a) the widest gap (b) any band (c) the one nearest an end (d) the gold band
- 3.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 780 Ω resistor? (a) violet-grey-red (b) grey-violet-brown (c) violet-grey-brown (d) violet-grey-black
- 4.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 12 Ω resistor? (a) brown-red-brown (b) red-red-black (c) brown-red-black (d) red-brown-black
- 5.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, red, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 6.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 51000 Ω resistor? (a) green-brown-red (b) green-brown-orange (c) green-brown-yellow (d) brown-green-orange
- 7.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, yellow, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 8.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, black, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 9.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does black stand for?
- 10.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, yellow, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 11.🌈 A gold fourth band on a resistor means the value may be off by … (a) 0 % (b) 50 % (c) 5 % (d) 25 %
- 12.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 13.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, red, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 14.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does red stand for?
- 15.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 16.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, green, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 17.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, red, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 18.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, grey, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 19.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, black, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 20.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, blue, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 21.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, white, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 22.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, black, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 23.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, yellow, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 24.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, red, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 25.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, black, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 26.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 790 Ω resistor? (a) violet-white-brown (b) violet-white-red (c) violet-white-black (d) white-violet-brown
- 27.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, violet, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 28.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, orange, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 29.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, white, red. 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, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 32.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does yellow stand for?
- 33.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 73000 Ω resistor? (a) violet-orange-yellow (b) violet-orange-orange (c) orange-violet-orange (d) violet-orange-red
- 34.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, red, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 35.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 55000 Ω resistor? (a) green-green-red (b) green-blue-orange (c) green-green-yellow (d) green-green-orange
- 36.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, yellow, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 37.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does grey stand for?
- 38.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, yellow, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 39.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, green, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 40.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, brown, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
Answer key
- violet-green-red
- the one nearest an end
- violet-grey-brown
- brown-red-black
- 9200
- green-brown-orange
- 6400
- 4
- 0
- 540
- 5 %
- 1.1
- 820
- 2
- 41000
- 15000
- 2200
- 180
- 400
- 36
- 290
- 200
- 54
- 620
- 60
- violet-white-brown
- 170
- 8300
- 3900
- 6
- 6100
- 4
- violet-orange-orange
- 7.2
- green-green-orange
- 24
- 8
- 74
- 9.5
- 2.1
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