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.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, brown, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 2.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, orange, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 3.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, brown, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 4.🌈 Which band is read first on a resistor? (a) the widest gap (b) the one nearest an end (c) the gold band (d) any band
- 5.🌈 A gold fourth band on a resistor means the value may be off by … (a) 0 % (b) 25 % (c) 5 % (d) 50 %
- 6.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, red, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 7.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 8.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, yellow, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 9.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, blue, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 10.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, orange, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 11.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does white stand for?
- 12.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands brown, white, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 13.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 190 Ω resistor? (a) white-brown-brown (b) brown-white-red (c) brown-white-brown (d) brown-white-black
- 14.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, red, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 15.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, brown, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 16.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, red, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 17.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 60 Ω resistor? (a) blue-black-black (b) blue-black-brown (c) violet-black-black (d) violet-blue-black
- 18.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 7800 Ω resistor? (a) violet-grey-orange (b) grey-violet-red (c) violet-grey-brown (d) violet-grey-red
- 19.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands green, grey, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 20.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does brown stand for?
- 21.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, green, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 22.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, blue, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 23.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands blue, violet, brown. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 24.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does green stand for?
- 25.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 16000 Ω resistor? (a) brown-blue-red (b) blue-brown-orange (c) brown-blue-yellow (d) brown-blue-orange
- 26.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, violet, black. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 27.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands violet, grey, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 28.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 92 Ω resistor? (a) white-red-brown (b) red-white-black (c) brown-red-black (d) white-red-black
- 29.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, black, red. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 30.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does yellow stand for?
- 31.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands orange, black, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 32.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, green, yellow. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 33.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does red stand for?
- 34.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does blue stand for?
- 35.🌈 In the resistor colour code, which number does black stand for?
- 36.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark an 86 Ω resistor? (a) blue-grey-black (b) grey-blue-brown (c) white-blue-black (d) grey-blue-black
- 37.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands yellow, grey, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 38.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 4600 Ω resistor? (a) yellow-blue-red (b) blue-yellow-red (c) yellow-blue-brown (d) yellow-blue-orange
- 39.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, red, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 40.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands red, violet, orange. What is its value (in ohms)?
Answer key
- 6100
- 430
- 310
- the one nearest an end
- 5 %
- 52000
- 11000
- 14000
- 76
- 4300
- 9
- 19000
- brown-white-brown
- 5.2
- 81000
- 22
- blue-black-black
- violet-grey-red
- 5.8
- 1
- 65
- 8600
- 670
- 5
- brown-blue-orange
- 37
- 780
- white-red-black
- 3
- 4
- 3000
- 450
- 2
- 6
- 0
- grey-blue-black
- 48000
- yellow-blue-red
- 2200
- 27000
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